(WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT) Sex, ISIS and birth control: Extremists keep slaves from becoming pregnant

'He told me, 'We don't want you to get pregnant.''

According to their beliefs, ISIS militants are unable to have sex with pregnant slaves. To keep the women - and girls - from conceiving, jihadists force their slaves to take contraceptives.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Thousands of the Yazidi minority have fallen victim to ISIS' sex slave industry, with some slaves as young as only six-years-old.

According to the Islamic extremist's revolting guidelines, "It is not permissible to cause her to abort if she is pregnant" and "If she does not menstruate and is pregnant, he is not allowed to have intercourse with her until after she has given birth."

Due to these regulations, ISIS militants have turned to modern techniques: birth control.

A 16-year-old former sex slave, who was identified only by her first initial, "M.," told the New York Times she was forced to take birth control pills each day in front of her owner. She did not know until later that the pills she took would allow him to rape her repeatedly without worrying about her becoming pregnant.

M. was sold a total of seven times, with one of her owners so paranoid about whether she was with child that he forced her to take a version of an emergency "morning after" pill, which caused her to bleed.

Unsatisfied with her forced menstruation, he injected her with a contraceptive called Depo-Provera and said, "To make sure you don't get pregnant." Then he raped her for the first of many times.

Thirty-seven women told their stories, from which a pattern swiftly emerged: women belonging to senior commanders were more likely to be drugged to keep them from getting pregnant - sometimes with several forms of birth control - while those sold to lower fighters were less likely to be forced to take contraceptives or had owners who completely disregarded the regulations.

J., an 18-year-old former slave, explained the Islamic State's governor of Tal Afar owned her.

"Each month, he made me get a shot," she described. "it was his assistant who took me to the hospital. On top of that he also gave me birth control pills. He told me, 'We don't want you to get pregnant.'"

She was later sold to a junior fighter, whose mother took her to a hospital for the monthly shots.

"She told me, 'If you are pregnant, we are gong to send you back," J. recalled. "They took me into the lab. There were machines that looked like centrifuges and other contraptions. They drew three vials of my blood. About 30 or 40 minutes later, they came back to say I wasn't pregnant."

Sadly, Yazidi sex slaves are extremely popular in the Middle East. Though several have escaped to tell their stories, thousands more remain trapped in a horrific cycle of rape, or choose death to escape their unbearable fates.

Though their situation is dire, some of the Yazidi women who have escaped formed an all-woman militia, aimed at killing as many jihadists as possible.
In keeping with their archaic practices, extremists do not fear enemy countries, they fear the power of women, which is why they fight so hard to keep women beneath their feet and trapped in inferior positions - such as sexual slavery - at all times.

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