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Report: ISIS using birth control to keep supply of sex slaves available

By REUTERS

MARCH 13, 2016 01:58

Updated: MARCH 13, 2016 10:26

WASHINGTON - The Islamic State is using several forms of contraception to maintain its supply of sex slaves, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing interviews with more than three dozen Yazidi women who escaped from the militant group.

The New York Times reported that Islamic State used "oral and injectable contraception, and sometimes both" to ensure that the women did not become pregnant and could be passed among the fighters.

"In at least one case, a woman was forced to have an abortion in order to make her available for sex, and others were pressured to do so," the paper said.

Islamic State militants consider the Yazidis to be devil-worshippers. The Yazidi faith has elements of Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Islam. Most of the Yazidi population, numbering around half a million, remains displaced in camps inside the autonomous entity in Iraq's north known as Kurdistan.

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