Israel Admits Ethiopian Women Were Given Birth Control Shots 
        
            By Talila Nesher, 
                Haaretz
             | 01. 27. 2013
        
                    
                                    
                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                            
                              
    
  
  
    
  
          
  
      
    
            A government official has for the first time acknowledged the practice of injecting women of Ethiopian origin with the long-acting contraceptive Depo-Provera. 
 
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