The paradoxical nature of Iranian society more often than notresults in people covertly performing the forbidden. As this nature dictates, delving into the rootof suchsocial issuescan be toughin the absence of crediblestatistics. Abortion is illegal in Iran, unless in exceptional cases of health threats endangering the mother or fetus. In such cases,...

Zistboom:About 250,000 and 6,000 babies are aborted illegally and legally respectively every year in Iran, director general of Health Ministrys Family Health and Population Department said. Mohammd Ismaeil Motlaq also told Fars News Agency Iran also annually registers 100,000 stillbirths. Addressing a roundtable about reasons behind the declining ...