{"id":16245,"date":"2013-09-09T18:03:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T22:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=16245"},"modified":"2013-09-09T18:03:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T22:03:54","slug":"global-war-against-women-girls-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=16245","title":{"rendered":"Global War Against Women: girls in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"

This one is so awful, there are no words. Via my friend Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution Is True, who picked it up from HuffPo:<\/p>\n

A headline from HuffPo<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>And the facts:<\/p>\n

An eight-year-old Yemeni girl has died of internal sexual injuries after spending her wedding night with a husband five times her age.<\/p>\n

The girl, identified as Rawan, is believed to have suffered tearing of her genitals and a uterine rupture,\u00a0Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al Watan reports.<\/a><\/p>\n

. . .\u00a0Al Bawaba reports<\/a>\u00a0over a quarter of young girls in Yemen are married before the age of 15.<\/p>\n

It points the country passed a law in February 2009 setting the minimum age of marriage at 17, but that it was repealed after conservative lawmakers declared it \u201cun-Islamic\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Only religion can sanction this kind of monstrous behavior. And no, it can\u2019t be pinned on Western occupation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one is so awful, there are no words. Via my friend Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution Is True, who picked it up from HuffPo: A headline from HuffPo: And the facts: An eight-year-old Yemeni girl has died of internal sexual … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-facts-of-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t