Give me children or give me death

M., 25, is about to die. The young haredi woman, who resides in an isolated community in Jerusalem, has been refusing to undergo an urgent hysterectomy to remove a tumor that has spread in her uterus because it will mean losing her ability to give birth.

M. was diagnosed with endometrial cancer over a year ago. The doctors told the young women, who has yet to give birth, that in order to save her life, they would have to remove her reproductive organs.