Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi
theguardian.com
The nearest abortion clinic – in Chicago – was too far away and too expensive for her mother to provide her with the procedure
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It's not a middle eastern thing, It stems from people in power who don't see women as having any value, except as house slaves/property. Those people try to justify their ideas by pointing to old texts, where other similar minded people have snuck in the notions of women as property or of less value than men.
Religious fanaticism.
That's what it has become, but I don't think any of the old religions was founded on the oppression of women, but people in power have conveniently added that sort of thing, when religion became a tool of power
Religion was invented as a tool of power, whether used for good or bad. Don't eat "unclean" animals because they make people sick or kill you. That message apparently didn't work as well as "God says no".