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Letter to President Obama, “Re: Ending the Deadly Denial of Abortion Services to Girls and Women Raped in War”
08.12.2014
Letter to President Obama, “Re: Ending the Deadly Denial of Abortion Services to Girls and Women Raped in War”
Abortion
Helms Amendment
International Humanitarian Law
Reproductive Rights
United States
US Abortion Laws
US Foreign Aid Restrictions
On the 65th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, GJC writes to President Obama asking him to issue an Executive Order which restores, at a minimum, the rape, incest and life endangerment exceptions to the Helms Amendment and affirms the rights of girls and women raped in war to all necessary medical care under the Geneva Conventions, including safe abortion.
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