[caption id="attachment_110787" align="alignright" width="265"] Iraqi women walk past a poster depicting images of Shi'ite Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at al-Firdous Square in Baghdad February 12, 2014.CREDIT: REUTERS/AHMED SAAD[/caption] (Reuters) - Iran's parliament has voted to ban permanent forms of contraception, the state news ...

Iran's parliament is seeking a ban on vasectomies and a tightening of abortion rules as the country moves away from its progressive laws on family planning in an attempt to increase the birthrate. Two decades after Iran initiated an effective birth control programme, including subsidised male sterilisation surgeries and free condom distribution, the ...