The memory of that day is still very painful for Noura. She was in Cairo’s City Stars Mall when she suddenly felt cramps, accompanied by heavy bleeding: “I sat down on the toilet. I felt something heavy flowing from my uterus. I put my hand under me to catch the blood.”
Noura is not using her real name here. She had an unplanned pregnancy at the age of 23 while in an extramarital relationship with a man called Khaled.
After they realized she was pregnant, her boyfriend obtained abortion…