Peace Corps could get limited abortion coverage

Published June 24, 2014 4:35pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — House appropriators have approved covering abortions for Peace Corps volunteers in cases of rape or a threat to their lives.

The measure offers women in the Peace Corps the same limited coverage for abortions available to military and civilian women serving the United States at home and abroad. Up to now, in cases of rape they’d have to pay out of pocket to terminate a pregnancy.

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