Just When You Thought You Had Heard of it All...
Sperm smuggling. Not something you hear of everyday... Dalal al-Ziben husband has been inside an Israeli prison for 16 years and will likely never get out, but that doesn't stop her from having children. As expected in conservative Palestinian society Dalal must stay faithful to her husband, with nothing to do but wait and hope for her husband to some day be released.
Al-Ziben says she got pregnant by her husband because he managed to have his sperm smuggled out of high security prison. Her argument being that a wife of a prisoner should not have to suffer and stay without children and a family.
Rimah Silawi is another Palestinian women making the same claim. Her husband is serving multiple life sentences and she too says she received In Vitro fertilization using sperm smuggled from inside an Israeli prison.
These women are open to tell people about their babies, but how exactly their husband's semen was smuggled goes unspoken.
Al-Ziben says she got pregnant by her husband because he managed to have his sperm smuggled out of high security prison. Her argument being that a wife of a prisoner should not have to suffer and stay without children and a family.
Rimah Silawi is another Palestinian women making the same claim. Her husband is serving multiple life sentences and she too says she received In Vitro fertilization using sperm smuggled from inside an Israeli prison.
These women are open to tell people about their babies, but how exactly their husband's semen was smuggled goes unspoken.
when i think of violent crimes, sperm smuggling isnt something that even comes to my mind. it just seems so interesting as to how it even gets transferred back to the wife. it seems kind of crazy. i also find it odd how the women are so comfortable with it because they see it as continuing their family. this is definitely something that is out of the norm in the united states.
ReplyDeleteIt's really interesting how something like this could be considered a crime. Is the crime that this criminal is still reproducing when he is in jail or is it the fact that this woman is making her own rules in such a strict society? It's crazy how different their society is from ours. It's becoming normal and almost being embraced in our society for women to be independent, not rely on men and do things on their terms. I think that this woman's way of approaching this is strange but her motivation is somewhat inspired.
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