Iran: The painful choices of being pregnant and unmarried
"I had to get rid of our unborn baby. It was the toughest decision of my entire life," says Mitra, a 27-year-old interior designer living in Tehran with her partner./ Mitra and Mohsen, a 32-year-old doctor, moved in together under - a form of cohabitation between a man and a woman which, like sex before marriage, is illegal under Iran's strict Islamic laws./ "Mohsen and I understood the challenges in advance but had no plans [to conceive] back then," Mitra adds./ They eventually had a change of heart and hoped that they would be able to ...
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