That is funny! Specially when I consider out of all my friends of all nationalities in Qatar, it's my American friends who get preggers here fastest and have the most number of kids.One of them had never had any kids,but since she moved to Qatar she's now been having a kid a year..every year(she's got 3 now). Guess they don't drink the water themselves!
Back to the OP: That is very very wrong and highly unacceptable on all accounts. I can't even imagine the kind of pain and horror these women must experience. Truly an inhuman practice and a classic case of heads of state playing God to their subjects!