Monday, October 31, 2011

Differing Perspectives- Military Women and Abortion (pt. 2)

http://www.nationalpartnership.org/site/News2?abbr=daily4_&page=NewsArticle&id=29097

In June of 2011, the Women's Health Policy Report stated that it was unconstitutional and an abuse over women in the military to deny these U.S. military members the right to a full covered abortion. In early 2011, The House of Rules declined an amendment that stated that women in the military could have a full paid abortion as they were serving without any given explanation or rational reason. Susan Davis argued to the House of Rules that rather than denying military women the right to a full covered abortion, they should be going out of their way to help these women since their "risk of sexual assaults doubles" when enlisting in the armed forces.

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