Musa Ghorbani, an MP and member of the Majles Judiciary Committee, suggested that female patients be allowed to enter into temporary marriage with their male doctors. At present, many such women die because their religious beliefs prevent them from being examined by men
Shahrzadnews: Speaking at a seminar on Sigha (temporary marriage), Musa Ghorbani, an MP and member of the Majles Judiciary Committee, suggested that female patients be allowed to enter into temporary marriage with their male doctors. At present, many such women die because their religious beliefs prevent them from being examined by men.
According to the Melatonline website, Ghorbani listed several health and social benefits that will procede from temporary marriage between female patients and their doctors. He said former Minister of Health Dr. Pezeshkian had told him that his own mother had died after refusing to be examined by a male doctor.
The same minister also asked a surgeon operating on his wife to enter into a formal non-sexual marriage with her, in order to make the operation religiously acceptable.
According to the MP, there are currently over ten million unmarried women and almost two million divorcees and widows in Iran, ‘for whom the government must do something.’
Source: http://www.shahrzadnews.org/index.php?page=2&articleId=2698
