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Nanore Barsoumian
Nanore Barsoumian was the editor of the Armenian Weekly from 2014 to 2016. She served as assistant editor of the Armenian Weekly from 2010 to 2014. Her writings focus on human rights, politics, poverty, and environmental and gender issues. She has reported from Armenia, Nagorno-Karabagh, Javakhk and Turkey. She earned her B.A. degree in Political Science and English and her M.A. in Conflict Resolution from the University of Massachusetts (Boston).
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“Abortion is an official genocide”
“Killing many cells in one being…is a genocide”
“To choose the Sex is a criminal act”
” Shame who perform it
We are a small nation
Give then to adoption to an Armenian family
Why to kill
Our Artful Nation…
Awake and Feel
Don’t commit more crimes
You… faithless women…!
Sylva
Where is the Armenian church on this issue. How come we don’t hear anything from the “moral” authority?
Please this is modified one more accurate…
The Baby Doom: Selective Abortion in Armenia
Dear Nanore…
We like your soulful articles…
You’re ‘A Real Lady’
Born for Humanity
This is very important issue…
That sincerly…You have lanced with your honest pen…
To save our Armenian Artful Race…
See if…Steve Job’s mother aborted her son
We would never had all the new
Technological advancment of the Internet
That the world enjoys…every second of it.
Take a lesson…
I wonder is there such mentalities
In our clever Armenian brain cells…?
Armenians are ‘A Faithful Race’
How can they commit such a suicide…!
Me…I am a girl…
Born…Female with XX chromosomes
and the third girl…in my family
I wonder…should my mother aborted me…
If she lived in this century…?
My mother wanted ‘A Girl’
She prayed for the Virgin Mary
To have a girl…To call her Sylva
To be poetess like Silva Kabutikyan…
And here ‘I Am’
Writing to you
To our dear Armenian Mothers
To tell them “Awake”…
Don’t abort any cell…
Any soul from your body
All are very precious fro our community…
To stay…breathe …seed…
After we lost so many Lives…
Never abort…Even Thee was a handicap…
I am a Mother
A Pediatrician
A Poetess
And just recently…A Grandmother
My grandson name is Arthur…I call him Artoon-Hani
And my dear daughter-in-law, Lilit…
Who is Armenian, from Real Armenia
Wanted a girl…to give her my name…
I hope next baby will be…To cuddle her…If I’m still alive…!
Dear Armenian Mother
Proceed with your pregnancy…
Please…Don’t obey any of illiterate scavengers
Who thinks… ‘Abortion is a fun’…
Let your daughter carry her ‘Father’s Surname’
Many do…I have done the same…
If you abort…
You will end up…melancholic insane
Remembering your ‘Lost Baby’…
Till you depart…from this harsh land…
This is my ‘last advice’
Before…away…I sigh..
Remember…every word I said,
Awake…Use your Astrocytes…
Don’t leave inside your ‘Inviolate Womb’
To be carved by a criminal’s knife…
Who will enjoy few cents and
You will end with injured heart…depressed…!
You will always feel that you committed
‘A Crime’—‘The Crime’
If you think you are A Real Christian…
And you hang a gold cross not only on your chest
But deep in the ‘Core of your Heart’
Ask yourself, “How can I committ such a crime…?”
At the end to pen…
“We want everyone to recognize our genocide,
But we…with our hands, committing the same act.”
Sylva-M.D-Poetry
November 24, 2011
Armenian church is too busy releasing its villas, restaurants and football fields from tax…
Also, it’s busy with fighting other religions and freedom of speech. So much for “moral authority”.
Oh, hello, Sylva. Still trolling treads, I see.
Bayander is very unethical guy
He will harm this site
He doesn’t like Armenians…
He speaks against any Armenian who is honest…
SP
Dear sylva-MD-Poetry
Its always are the Christians who start judging other people i don’t understand why don’t you read the only book you have carefully and start act like it. and DO not never judge the women who do the abortion, its a small % of them who done it because of the sex of a child, when they know they cant keep the child and he/she is gonna grew up is a worst conditions, its their choice. try to go there and help as many as you can except writing the bad and fake nationalist poetry. and PLEASE dont compare Genocide with this.
Aren,
Many thanks for your letter… i do appreciate your opinion
but do you know how many females die from abortion…?
please open any site and read the complications of abortion …
specially in a state like Armenia…
Even if few died it is a death…
I’m no longer interested in medicine like before…getting old…
There was a study few years ago …I need to search in PUBMED…in USA
Mothers who aborted diagnosed Dawn babies they regret
some they could not have more babies…
Psychology of selfless…dedicated mothers are very complicated
males can’t understand…
and they will never understand…
because they are males …
have different physiology …
different psychology…
I love Arabs mothers when they say,
Every child brings his luck…
Which is very true
Sylva
This article is shocking to me in so many different ways. That is incredibly sad in the last story “That completely changed their lives, and their view on sex selective abortions.” But not on abortion in general? The implication of that statement is that they realized more fully the value of human life, but did not realize that all abortion destroys life. Is it only wrong to kill human persons if done selectively or unequally?
As sad as the soviet era policies are to look back on, more needs to be done to remedy the damage. Our ancestors must be turning in their graves (or lack thereof) to know that our own society is continuing what the Ottomans government started. To put it into perspective, with a fertility rate of 1.7 the population will decrease by one third in a single generation (without accounting for other factors)! Is this not alarming to anyone else? Will Armenia sacrifice its future to play-act at being a European nation when they are practically collapsing because of their dwindling workforces’ inability to support their elderly dependents?
“The issue itself—the discriminative approach at birth where each child does not have an equal right to birth and life—should be considered,”
Right! What does it say about a society when the value of the individual person changes depending on its gender or ability to generate a cash flow in the future? No one’s life is sacred when anyone among us can be deemed “disposable.” The inherent value of each of us is diminished. It is important to consider the implications of this for the nation.
Also, Sylva is right. For some women (not all), who elect to have abortions (for any reason) there are long lasting psychological consequences. This has been studied by numerous researchers and described by some as resembling post-traumatic stress syndrome.
To point this out to women who are contemplating having abortion is not necessarily critical. It can be seen as supportive. Many people simply view abortion as a logical solution to a problem, but for some women, depending on their psychological make-up, having an abortion can have devastating consequences. Women have a right to know that for some women, it is far from being an innocuous event as presented by some segments of society.
I think the church needs to stay out of this issue because as we’ve seen in the US, the only thing religion does on this issue is stifle freedom. What should be done in my opinion is get Planned Parenthood to partner with USAID and open similar clinics in Hayastan. Planned parenthood in no way encourages abortions and it provides women with facts about birth control and abortion. PLanned Parenthood could also raise the public awareness about birth control to help prevent women from getting pregnant in the first place. We have many organizations here in the US that have been dealing with these issues for such a long time, and we wouldn’t need to reinvent the wheel. If we could connect the groups in the US with the healthcare providers in Hayastan we could see significant strides.
Hayaser …
Many thanks for your supporting letter …I enjoyed and read it many times…
And thanks for Nanore once again…to bring this subject…
This subject is very important for every female…Not only for Armenian females…
I hope every Armenian girl to become a mother…
Motherhood is the most beautiful episode in female’s life…
I pray…I can see Armenian females are getting difficult…
I do contact many females…Beautiful, Educated, Talented…
Most are unmarried…I am shocked…
I ASK EVERY MOTHER ON THIS SITE…to contribute …
To write even few words so our males can understand…
Sylva
In the past 20 years, abortion rates have skyrocketed in Armenia, as birth rates have plummeted. Selective abortion based on gender is an innovation of capitalism, as anyone who had been following the practice in India and capitalist China can attest. During Soviet times, children, including girls, were cherished, fed and educated. Twenty years have passed since the end of the Soviet era, and yet some people continue to blame new disasters that capitalism has created for Armenia on a “legacy” mysteriously inherited from the past. (Somehow, this intransigent “legacy” never goes back any further that the day that Armenia became a part of the Soviet Union.) The demographic facts are a matter of record. People are getting tired of this way of talking, this way of ignoring the disaster that capitalist gangsters in Yerevan and their imperialist masters have foisted onto Armenia.
Search for an Orphan
In Any Soil You Live
Give some love
Don’t Leave
Even a Small One
Better than None
Who has the heart
To love every child
A child…
Who defined as an orphan
The mother is there
The father is there
Both have no soul
For their child to care,
Thy is an orphan
Feeding playing alone
Who can give…love
Gift some happy breaths?
Love can’t fall like the rain
Can’t fall like manna-rice.
Should arrive from spirits
Need someone to feel.
Can you be that one…?
Feel happy to care…
January 7, 2010
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This poem represent a lady Tiga (Helen) Cullinan, My Professor’s wife Tim R. Cullinan
We are still friends although He rested away.
She adopted a mixed child (Black-English) as her mother-in-law was volantering for those children…To finsd a home, in spite having four kids of her own.
Her neighbor told her, first buy shoes for your children and later care for another one!
She gave love and still giving to everyone and her 19 grandchildren.
She has a big Heart…Not everone Has…
This is a sickening, disgusting, evil disaster. The Armenian people must rally against abortion if we hope to keep our moral dignity or national strength. The time is now. Armenia cannot wait.