Saudi cleric says driving risks damaging women's ovaries [View all]

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Source: BBC

Women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and producing children with clinical problems, according to a conservative Saudi cleric.

The comment, made by Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan, came as activists step up their campaign for women in Saudi Arabia to be allowed to drive.


"If a woman drives a car, not out of pure necessity, that could have negative physiological impacts as functional and physiological medical studies show that it automatically affects the ovaries and pushes the pelvis upwards," Sheikh Lohaidan told the news website Sabq.org.


Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24323934

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They just can't help themselves, can they? Where are these "physiological medical studies"?