Iran has proposed new legislation that would make it even more difficult for women to have
any control over their reproductive rights now they're doing this in an effort to create
more babies procreate I should say and basically repopulate Iran as much as possible now Amnesty
International did a report on this and it's crazy because this law would basically force
women to stay home not work and have as many kids as possible one draft law outlawing voluntary
sterilization and restricting access to information about contraception was pass by parliament
in 2014 and now is being considered by the Guardian Council which must approve all law
Amnesty said so if you want to get sterilized if this law passes you will not be able to
do so as a woman you won't be able to make that choice and the government will also do
everything in its power to without information about contraceptives from you that way of
course it's going to be a lot more difficult for you to decide when or if you're going
to have a child this is American abstinence only so some of it is mandatory as Anna explained
some of it is just pushing people in a certain direction by the way there's 90 million people
in Iran and more than half the country under the age of 25 but not good enough they want
more they're worried about dropping rates of reproduction and so they just want more
and more kids and in order to do that they got to discriminate against women a little
bit so what are you gonna do so it get's worse another draft law forces employers hiring
new staff to prioritize in order men with children married men without children then
maybe married women with children parliament is due to consider it this in April so the
thing about what that does too when those two laws work in conjunction with one another
so they're telling women we're not unlikely to hire you it's not that we're never going
to hire but we're unlikely you're lower on the priority list so stay at home plus we're
going to restrict your access to contraception oh would you look at that while you were staying
at home you got pregnant OK now just stay at home and take care of the kids yeah so
that's the direction their pushing what it's really doing Cenk is it's making them dependant
on a man that's another that's the whole thing so now that's what increased people stay in
domestic violence situations because they feel financially dependent on that person
and there are literally setting that system up right now or at least super strongly incentivizing
having the kid in the I mean they're effectively setting up a caste system you can sort of
influence where you're at but also by the way like obviously the most important thing
here is that women with children come after married men with children or but still people
who aren't married men who aren't married are put after all them and then presumably
women who aren't married and don't have kids after them and if you're idea is that you
want them to get married and have kids maybe them getting a job would help get them to
the place for where their financially secure enough to start a family they're saying if
you're not already married and you don't already have kids you're behind everybody for finding
a job and by the way in the Middle East what happens when you tell me that they can't get
married and they can't have a job when they have sexual and economic in security what
does that lead to it leads to groups like ISIS yeah so that's a good point I thought
you were going to say it leads to them having sex with other dudes by the way we also know
it leads to some extremely bizarre porn searches that's very true my first initially reaction
is like see religion poisons everything they're doing this under the guise of religion but
the people who are doing this aren't doing this for religiously they might be hiding
behind they're doing it for exactly because they want more people and they don't mind
repressing women which is OK with their fundamentalist view of their religion right so it's that's
the thing when you know religion is often used to do horrible shit well I'm curious
what the real priority is the real priority you know increasing the population in Iran
or the real priority repressing women further under the guise of you know populated Iran
oh you see what I'm saying yes I see already we're having Iran has devolved in many ways
when it comes to human rights and civil right and if you look at what's happen in the courts
right now a woman's testimony is worth half a man's while rape within marriage and domestic
violence are not even recognized as criminal offenses so these are real issues in Iran
and this is a problem that's happening now there is no legislation for this but there
is legislation for rights of women to devolve further yeah and it seems like whenever you're
dealing with an oppressive government this is the kind of thing that they do they want
to roll back the rights of women and that's exactly what this will do now to tie what
all of you had said so they incentives are now stay at home OK you're not likely to get
a job get pregnant as quickly as you can as many times as you can and then once you're
stuck in that home and you have no economic freedom then your husband's can beat you and
it's totally legal and they can rape you and it's totally legal and you'll have to deal
with that and so why do they do all that for all the reason that you guys have been stating
so men are in charge and women are not