Followup on a previous story/post:

BBC NEWS | Africa>The only free hospital in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has reopened, five weeks after it shut following threats to a doctor who removed a woman’s womb.

An Islamic Sharia court brokered an agreement between the clan and the hospital, and fined the doctor $2000 for not consulting the family first.

Would they have given permission to operate? I don’t know. I’ve been reading Nine Parts of Desire, and given what I’ve learned so far, it’s likely the family would have written off the woman as expendable if she was no longer capable of bearing children.

Some of the things I’ve read have chilled me to the bones. I wouldn’t have survived long in that world. It’s a terrifying place to be born female.

At least the hospital will be open now. I don’t hold out much hope for the woman’s survival – the family may feel she’s brought dishonor on them by getting them involved in the dispute and … well. Like I said, it’s a different world.