NY Times 3/18/2013: "Providing abortions to women and girls subjected to rape as a weapon of armed conflict obviously has nothing to do with planning family. Yet this has not stopped successive Republican and Democratic administrations from treating the amendment as an absolute abortion ban. The misinterpretation has also prevented foreign aid recipients from offering abortion information even though a separate 1994 amendment makes clear that providing information does not amount to improper coercion. There is a strong case to be made that the current reading of the amendment violates Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which entitles all victims of armed conflict, including rape victims, to complete and nondiscriminatory medical treatment, like access to abortions."
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