The number of Iranian mothers who commit murder due to unwanted pregnancies is increasing.

Sara.Kh. FCNN News Agency: There are no general and official statistics available, but scattered news from different regions of Iran report an increase in the murder of creatures killed by their mothers.

Mothers who become pregnant unintentionally and perhaps, despite their attachment to the being in their womb, consent to killing it.

According to FCNN, the Director General of Forensic Medicine in Tehran recently announced the registration of 950 cases of legal abortion requests in this province, only a third of which were subject to legal authorization. In other words, more than 600 Tehran mothers requested the murder of their children within a month.

According to the law, abortion is only permitted in cases where the pregnancy poses a life-threatening risk to the mother. However, this legal restriction has so far failed to prevent the increase in the number of illegal abortions in Iran.

The silence of the government sector is a sign of indifference.

In an interview with FCNN, sociologist Soudabeh Makram emphasizes that in order to confront these heinous crimes in the country, the roots must be examined and deterrent tools must be used.

He considers the government's silence on the rise in abortions in the country a sign of the indifference of government leaders.

In his opinion, the lack of official statistics on this matter amounts to erasing the issue and leaving society to its own devices. While abortion can arise from problems such as economic problems, the promotion of corruption, and illicit relationships, especially secret and temporary marriages called concubines.

Soudabeh continues by listing some of the obvious realities in Iran: In the last few decades, unfortunate phenomena such as the weakening of family ties, the weakening of religious and traditional views of girls towards premarital sex, the growth of prostitution and the tendency to run away from home have become prominent in Iran. Unfortunately, the government sector has remained silent in the face of such bitter realities and only pursues coercive and disciplinary actions.

Meanwhile, we see that official abortion statistics were last announced in 1998, when they reported a ten percent increase in abortions in the country.

 According to the Negar website, and according to Mohammad Ismail Mutlaq, the then director general of the Health and Family Population Office, according to the statistics mentioned, about 90,000 fetuses were aborted legally and illegally in the country every year; that is, on average, 221 fetuses every day and 9 fetuses every hour.

Of these, 80,000 abortions were performed illegally. The official concluded that an estimated 120,000 illegal abortions are currently performed in the country annually.

And now, some unofficial statistics indicate that at least 56 percent of Iranian youth have been in a relationship with a girl, 26 percent of whom have had an illicit relationship, and 13 percent of these relationships have led to unwanted pregnancies and abortions.

According to official statistics, 26.3 percent of our country's population of 80 million 307 thousand people is made up of young people. With a rough calculation and in the most optimistic case, we can conclude that more than 30 thousand fetuses are aborted in Iran every year.

The rise in abortions is a result of government action. 

Mina, a Tehran citizen, also confirmed the growth of abortions in the country, emphasizing in an interview with FCNN that the authorities are not taking any action to combat abortions, because they prefer to pretend that there is no corruption or immorality in our Islamic country.

Mina believes that part of the illegal abortions in Iran are the result of the elimination of free contraceptive methods. Another part is the result of secret marriages between men seeking diversity and helpless women who choose prostitution to make a living, without having the intention of prostitution.

According to this citizen, both of these areas of promoting abortion have been expanded by the Islamic government. Because the emphasis on childbearing regardless of people's economic problems and the legalization of polygamy for men, along with the lack of support solutions for unaccompanied women, are among the glories of the Islamic Republic regime.

Mina, referring to the large number of clandestine abortion centers in Tehran, says: "The increasing demand for abortion drugs in Naser Khosrow and the influx of pregnant mothers into unsanitary centers for unsafe abortions reflect a bitter reality in Islamic Iran. A reality that speaks of the growth of violence and the fading of maternal love and paternal responsibility, and the authorities have simply ignored it."

This citizen, however, believes that the consequences of considering these killings as normal will affect all of Iranian society and subject it to divine punishment.