Daesh using birth control for steady supply of sex slaves

Yazidi sisters, who escaped from captivity by Daesh militants, sit in a tent at Sharya refugee camp on the outskirts of Duhok province July 3, 2015.

Washington - Fighters reportedly ensure women don't become pregnant by using oral and injectable contraception.

The Daesh is using several forms of contraception to maintain its supply of sex slaves, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing interviews with more than three dozen Yazidi women who escaped from the militant group.
The New York Times reported that Daeshused "oral and injectable contraception, and sometimes both" to ensure that the women did not become pregnant and could be passed among the fighters.
"In at least one case, a woman was forced to have an abortion in order to make her available for sex, and others were pressured to do so," the paper said.
Until late last year, some 5,000 Yazidi men and women were captured by the militants in the summer of 2014. Of those, around 2,000 had managed to escape or been smuggled out of Daesh's  self-proclaimed caliphate, activists said.
The New York Times, citing a gynecologist who carried out the examinations, said that out of the more than 700 Yazidi rape victims who had gone to a United Nations-backed clinic in Iraq, only 5 per cent had become pregnant during their enslavement.
"We were expecting something higher," Dr. Nezar Ismet Taib, who oversees the clinic, told the paper. 
A 16-year-old with the first initial M told the Times that during her 12 months of captivity, she was forced to swallow a red pill in front of the Daesh fighter who bought her.

"Every day, I had to swallow one in front of him," she said. "He gave me one box per month. When I ran out, he replaced it. When I was sold from one man to another, the box of pills came with me."