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    ALAVERDI FATHER OF SEVEN: 'ARTIFICIALLY TERMINATING A PREGNANCY IS MURDER'

    10:43, December 2, 2014

    Roza Matchkalyan, a gynecologist at the Alaverdi Medical Center in
    Armenia, says she's opposed to artificial pregnancy terminations
    based on sex preferences.

    The physician, who also heads the center's consultations unit, says
    that the number of pregnant women seeking advice has increased by
    forty monthly as compared to last year. She also says that births
    have risen by 25.

    Matchkalyan also claims that the number of artificially induced births
    at home has decreased due to new laws prohibiting the sale of such
    drugs without a doctor's prescription.

    "At one time, abortions had decreased but induced miscarriages shot
    up. In the past two months, these have decreased as well," she noted.

    "We can state that the law is working and that women are now more
    interested in family planning."

    She says that women do not come to the medical center for artificially
    induced terminations because they know that such procedures are
    not offered.

    Matchkalyan believes that men are more inclined to terminate a birth
    if it's a girl. "A woman would never take such a step unless prompted
    by the father," she says, adding that men prefer a male child to keep
    the family name going.

    Marousya Ohanyan, a resident of the village of Hagvi, says that a boy
    is better for a father, because he'll grow up like a brother to him,
    while moms want girls who will grow up to become little sisters.

    "When I got married and was pregnant, I wanted to have a girl. But
    it was a boy," says Ohanyan, noting that village families still have
    several children.

    Hasmik Paranyan, from the village of Karindj, says that the older
    girls take care of the little ones and that she couldn't get any work
    done otherwise.

    Alaverdi resident Sousanna Danielyan, a mother of seven, recounts
    that her relatives started to get worried after she gave birth to
    three girls in a row, thinking she' never have a boy.

    "They took it kind of hard, and that's the only reason I wanted a boy.

    It was the same to me. Certain things are just out of your hands,"
    says Danielyan.

    Her husband Vitaly Grigoryan, like most Armenian men, wanted their
    firstborn to be a boy.

    "Having three girls in succession was a bit tough. But then we had
    four boys in a row. We understood that was the way it had to be,"
    says Vitaly.

    He went on to say that they had found out beforehand what the sex
    of the fourth child was to be, but even if it had been a girl, they
    would have never terminated the pregnancy.

    "Each individual born is unique. Physically some might look the same
    but their inner essence is different. When a pregnancy is terminated,
    that person can never be born again. Artificial terminations are
    murder. What difference does it make if you kill a person inside or
    outside the womb," says Vitaly.

    http://hetq.am/eng/news/57607/alaverdi-father-of-seven-artificially-terminating-a-pregnancy-is-murder.html

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