A TV host in Egypt was sentenced to three years in prison for talking on air about women having children out of wedlock.
Doaa Salah, a presenter on the Dodi Show, spoke to her audience over ways a single woman can become a mother.
She reportedly opened the show by wearing a fake pregnancy belly while saying, “If she gets a divorce, she becomes a single mother. If, God forbid, she is widowed, she becomes a single mother. So can you choose, yourself, to become a single mother before you get married?”
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Salah also presented the idea that a woman could get married for a short period of time to conceive and then obtain a divorce.
She also is reported to have complained that artificial insemination is not available in Egypt.
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Salah was charged and convicted with outraging public decency.
EFE news agency reported the authorities said the ideas in the program “threatened the fabric of Egyptian life.”
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