GIRLS RAPED BY ISIS/ BOKO HARAM are denied aid because of US Laws which ban abortions

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/women-raped-by-isis-boko-haram-terrorist-attackers-denied-abortions-due-to-us-overseas-funding-ban-10304043.html

Women raped and impregnated by terrorist captors are being denied overseas help to get abortions because of federal red tape in the US government.

Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders in the US have called on President Barack Obama to change the Helms amendment, a law that prevents foreign aid money to fund abortion overseas unless a woman’s life is in danger.

The 42-year-old federal law forbids US aid money being used for abortion “as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortion.”

According to the Washington Post, representatives from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) and the NGO, Centre for Health and Gender Equity, argued at a summit in Washington on Thursday that when Yazidi, Iraqi, Nigerian and Syrian women are systematically raped, the abortions that they might seek afterwards are not for “family planning purposes.”

This means that women who become pregnant as a result of rape have to bear the children of their attackers. The campaigning religious leaders believe that abortion is a vital part of post-rape care.