Kabul – When Bahara was four months pregnant, she went to a Kabul hospital to beg for an abortion. “We’re not allowed,” a doctor told her. “If someone finds out, we will all end up in prison.”
Abortion in Afghanistan is illegal, and you can be locked up for having or assisting with one.
But Bahara was desperate. Her jobless husband had ordered her to “find a solution” — he did not want a fifth daughter.
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