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To: markomalley

The only article I can find remotely relevant is here:

http://www.lilithgallery.com/feminist/abortioninbaghdad.html

This is an obviously irrational screed supposedly sourced to the washington post yet clearly paralleling the supposed clinic to a "butcher shop" and claiming the US pays for it because of all the rapes by US servicemen.

Needless to say, the article is utter hogwash.

The relevant law: since 1973, the Helms amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act has prohibited the use of U.S. funds for abortion services; using U.S. funds for biomedical research and lobbying on abortion has been prohibited since 1981. In 30 years, no violations have been reported.

Further background: the Iraqi regulations on abortion under Saddam (which probably, though not certainly, haven't changed) are available here:

http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion/doc/iraq.doc

"Abortions are allowed in Iraq to preserve the life and health of the pregnant woman and for reasons of foetal defect. Iraqi law also allows abortion for reasons of incest and rape. Spousal consent is required."


159 posted on 03/06/2007 7:01:17 PM PST by voltaires_zit
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To: voltaires_zit

If you are correct, this post needs to be edited or pulled. An inflammatory allegation like that cannot stand if it is not true.


173 posted on 03/06/2007 7:10:55 PM PST by wouldntbprudent
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