{"id":52697,"date":"2023-02-17T19:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/feb\/17\/taliban-ban-contraception-western-conspiracy"},"modified":"2023-02-17T19:00:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:00:44","slug":"taliban-bans-contraception-calling-use-a-western-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52697","title":{"rendered":"Taliban bans contraception calling use a \u2018western conspiracy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports that fighters have threatened those issuing birth control medicines come as Afghan midwives and activists warn of impact on women\u2019s health and rights<\/p>\n<p>Taliban fighters have stopped the sale of contraceptives in two of Afghanistan\u2019s main cities, claiming their use by women is a western conspiracy to control the Muslim population.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian has learned that the Taliban has been going door to door, threatening midwives and ordering pharmacies to clear their shelves of all birth control medicines and devices.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/feb\/17\/taliban-ban-contraception-western-conspiracy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports that fighters have threatened those issuing birth control medicines come as Afghan midwives and activists warn of impact on women\u2019s health and rightsTaliban fighters have stopped the sale of contraceptives in two of Afghanistan\u2019s main cities, c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":835,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2162,59,346,1539,61,44,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-contraception-and-family-planning","category-global-development","category-health","category-reproductive-rights","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52698,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52697\/revisions\/52698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}