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State Comptroller to probe Ethiopian 'birth control shots'
Decision to investigate comes after several MKs lobbied Shapira.<snip>
"State Comptroller Yosef Shapira on Sunday announced he will probe allegations that the state persuaded Ethiopian immigrant women to take birth control shots (Depo-Provera) without proper explanation of their function or side effects.
The probe comes after several MKs lobbied Shapira to look into the matter.
The Health Ministry has ordered doctors to review how they prescribe a birth control drug, after accusations it was being used to control the population of Ethiopian immigrants.
Suspicions that Ethiopian women had been coerced into receiving Depo-Provera arose in Israeli media a few years ago and in a TV documentary linking the community's falling birthrate to over-prescription of the injectable contraceptive.
After a civil rights group accused it of racism, the health ministry ordered doctors not to renew Depo-Provera prescriptions unless they were convinced patients understood the ramifications, according to a letter from the ministry posted on the group's website in January."
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/State-Comptroller-says-will-probe-Ethiopian-birth-control-shots-319779
