Read this, and see if you don't get the same old "stoo-pid, primitive Africans" who can't run their own societies and don't share our values, etc.
I get tired of that shit, as if DROPPING BOMBS on PEOPLE and WIPING OUT FAMILIES is somehow more "civilized."
Hey, I don't think ANYONE in this world should be mistreated, but I am really sick of Zionist racism being shoved down my throart in the Zionist-controlled AMERIKAN NEWSPAPERS!
Oh, yeah, and WHAT ABOUT THE STARVATION PROBLEMS? Nothing on that today?
"Africa fertility clinics offer hope to stigmatized" by Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post | August 24, 2008
KAMPALA, Uganda - In a country with one of the highest birthrates on Earth, where bearing children is considered a woman's singular purpose, Betty Apio leads an unusual life.
She has no children, not by choice, but because of a string of medical mishaps. Though she cares for nieces and nephews, she essentially lives on her own in the Kampala suburbs, where her living room is adorned with photos of the smiling husband who left her for a woman who could, as people here say, "produce."
Some neighbors believe she is cursed. They shoo their children away from the pretty lady next door, a teacher who dreams of building a day-care center. She has learned to ignore them.
"People will never give you respect," said Apio, 44. "You have no value. People insult you - 'You barren woman! You are useless!' It's horrible. And if you are not strong, you will not survive."
But Apio and an increasing number of other middle class African women are seeking their social salvation in a service unheard of in Kampala until recently: fertility treatments. In the past few years, two clinics have opened in Kampala, one in Nairobi and a handful of others in major cities across the continent.
Just take it easy with the treatments, ok?
One wonders what poisons they are injecting the Africans with; after all, what do you think sterilized her?
The clinics offer an alternative to superstitious explanations of infertility and the dubious advice of traditional healers, whose cures include having women run naked in circles around a dead sparrow at night. Fertility doctors are also bringing to light an uncomfortable truth about a condition almost always blamed on women: that at least half the time, the problem is with the man.
Now look, I'm not saying that is the answer or effective; however, it just adds to the racism the US has about black people. Remember when they got scared easy by ghosts in the TV shows? Yeah, jewsmedia, always.
"The number of clients is going up by the day," said Annie Akatabaazi, who helps run a clinic that treats some of the few thousand women here who seek help each year.
"Some ask to come at night, so they'll not be seen. Some call whispering. Sometimes they don't want to give you their name," Akatabaazi said. "They come saying, 'My husband is going to leave me if I don't have children.' And the men, once they find out, they come every day. If they have an appointment at 9 a.m., they show up at 8."
In much of Africa, the stigma of infertility is so severe that it often drives women - and men - to suicide. In some rural areas, women who die without children are carried in their coffins through the back door of the church. Women are sometimes branded witches and in other ways forced into isolation in a society that has few places for them.
This is tragic, but you know what?
The US leads in domestic violence and rapes, so I really don't feel good pointing a finger, 'kay?
The entrenched culture of large families in Africa has to do with economics. In societies with virtually no government safety net, children represent financial security: One way or another, they are expected to provide for their parents when they get old. And for women in particular, children are a kind of insurance, protecting mothers against a divorce system that tends to grant property to men.
Yeah, yeah, those blacks are all a bunch of savages to their women.
You almost get the feeling that they don't love them, huh?
Not like a good USraeli would!
"In the African sense, children are an investment," said Robinah Kaitiritimba, a healthcare advocate in Kampala, a bustling, hilly city of contrasts, where extreme poverty exists alongside malls and middle class neighborhoods.
Well, THEY SURE OUT TO BE!!!!
What kind of a world would it be without children?
Women in Uganda, where polygamy is legal, have seven children on average; a recent newspaper article described in celebratory tones the life and times of a man who had 120 children with seven wives.
What do you know, they have something in common with Mormons.
And that is a bit much, huh? Africa's Wilt Chamberlain?
Though ideas about family are slowly changing, even relatively educated, middle class women such as Apio suffer in a culture that seems designed to shun them.
Again with the African-bashing.
She and her husband, also a teacher, married in the 1980s to the joy of both their families and with the absolute expectation that children would soon follow. They bought a house in Kampala, which Apio furnished with brown velour couches, tables with white doilies and their wedding photos. But the children never came.
Apio, who agreed to discuss her situation in the hope that other women would feel less alone, attributes her condition to an abortion she had when she was young.Why save THAT until the END, agenda-pushing, pro-abortion Globe?
Getting pregnant at her age was taboo in her village, she said, and so was discussing the matter with her mother. So Apio's sister arranged for her to have an abortion at a hospital. Apio's procedure was, she learned later, botched.
That's why you shouldn't get them, ladies!
You don't know what quack is gonna be reaching up there.
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