Iranian authority orders labs to help stop 'criminal abortions'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The letter has quickly put paid to hopes that the nation was relaxing is stance on women's rights after the government recently announced that women would be allowed to attend a football game for the first time in two years'The presence of women has been authorised for the match between the national football teams of Iran and South Korea' at the capital's Azadi stadium on October 12, the state television-linked Young Journalists Club said.
47% : The letter was leaked on Twitter by health and medical journalist Mahdiar Saeedian and has triggered outraged responses from women in Iran on social media.
46% : Addressed to the President of University of Medical Sciences in Iran from the province's crime prevention deputy, the letter read: 'One of the ways to prevent abortion is by connecting laboratories and the clinical centres to introduce mothers with positive pregnancy test results.'
43% : A letter from an official judicial body in Iran has called on laboratories to help prevent 'criminal abortions' by reporting women's positive pregnancy tests to the government
43% : The letter from a crime prevention deputy in Iran, leaked on Twitter and addressed to the President of University of Medical Sciences, read: 'One of the ways to prevent abortion is by connecting laboratories and the clinical centres to introduce mothers with positive pregnancy test results'
42% : A letter from an official judicial body in Iran has called on laboratories to help prevent 'criminal abortions' by reporting women's positive pregnancy tests to the government.
41% : Some Iranian streaming sites will self censor to avoid facing sanctions from authorities in Tehran.
40% : The Human Rights Watch organisation has described women's rights in Iran as 'severely restricted'An Iranian women's rights activists told ABC News on condition of anonymity that the move is symptomatic of the Islamic Republic's desire to maintain control over women's bodies.
31% : While pregnant women can turn to back-alley clinics or make appointments with doctors off the books to receive abortions, Iran also punishes any medical professional who is found to have given an illegal abortion with a prison sentence of up to one year and considerable fines according to the BBC.
29% : The news comes amid the introduction of bizarre television censorship rules in Iran, which bans broadcasters from showing women eating pizza, sandwiches and 'red-coloured drinks'
28% : Around 9,000 legal abortions are performed each year in Iran, but the Iranian health ministry estimates around 250,000 illegal abortions take place every year.
23% : Abortion in Iran is illegal in almost all cases with occasional exceptions granted for married women who can prove that giving birth would endanger their lives or the life of the baby, or in the case that the child is likely to be born with severe disabilities.

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