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Grandmother Araksya from village Tegh remembers young years (video)
Goris women’s development “Resource center” foundation video material, which was published by Sharavigh, is about abortion conditioned with sex of the fetus. The speaker is 85 years old grandmother Araksya from Goris region Tegh village. In reality, abortions conditioned with sex of the fetus have long history. In the past especially in villages, the women, who had only female children appeared in difficult situation. Grandmother Araksya tells how they got rid of female children and how shameful it was for women not to have a son. When several female children were born in a family, mother-in-lows turned pillow on newborn’ s face. Grandmother Araksya’s conversation- below
