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'''Geoffrey Lancelot Rutter Davis''' (died 3 October 2008) was an Australian doctor (1958 Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (Faculty of Medicine alumni) a director of the International Abortion Research and Training Centre.<ref name="The Age 1975" /> and the owner of The Abbey in Annandale, Sydney, NSW. In the early 1960s Davis had two clinics in the [[Potts Point]] and Arncliffe suburbs of Sydney where he carried out discreet terminations up until 1971, when [[abortion]] was legalised in New South Wales. Though Davis was originally an anaesthetist, he is known for his work with late term abortions. Davis had worked with [[Population Services International]], the [[International Fertility Research Program]], and [[International Planned Parenthood Federation]] in the 1960s.<ref name="Powerhouse Museum" /><ref name="D'Costa 2010" /> Davis also did research on [[Misoprostol#Induced abortion|prior induced abortion]].<ref name="Davis 1979" /><br />
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Davis is best known for his work in performing late-term abortions following the mass rapes during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Davis worked in a victim relief programme in Dhaka in the year following the [[Bangladesh Liberation War|liberation war]] at the request of the [[World Health Organization]] and [[International Planned Parenthood Federation]].<ref name="Brownmiller"/> In conjunction with Leonard Laufe, Davis set up "industrial scale procedures" of abortion in the year following the war. Between them they carried out 95 percent of terminations which had resulted from the mass rapes.<ref name="Mookherjee 2007 pp339-355" /> Davis also travelled for months in remote areas to carry out terminations.<ref name="Brownmiller 2007 p92"><br />
{{cite book|last=Brownmiller|first=Susan|title=The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary|year=2007|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0812219821|page=92|editor=William F. Schulz}}<br />
</ref> Davis has estimated that at least 400,000<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldviews/2012/05/21/1971-rapes-bangladesh-cannot-hide-history/?sh=ccd7f0416dfe|title = 1971 Rapes: Bangladesh Cannot Hide History}}</ref> women and children had been raped by the Pakistani armed forces and their collaborators, the [[Al-Badr (East Pakistan)|Al-Badr]] ("the moon") the [[Al-Shams (Bangladesh)|Al-Shams]] ("the sun") and the [[Razakars (Pakistan)|Razakars]].<ref name="D'Costa 2010" /><ref name="Mookherjee 2012 p77" /> In addition to carrying out terminations Davis also worked with international adoption agencies in trying to find families for the children who were unwanted due to cultural beliefs.<ref name="Hossain 2012" /> Davis died on 3 October 2008 in Australia.<ref name="Khan 2008" /><br />
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<ref name="Khan 2008">{{cite news|last=Khan|first=Kamrul Ahsan|title=Friend of Bangladesh Dr Geoffrey Davis passes away|url=http://www.priyoaustralia.com.au/community-news/21795-friend-of-bangladesh-dr-geoffrey-davis-passes-away.html|newspaper=Priyo Australia|date=10 October 2008|access-date=30 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820001325/http://www.priyoaustralia.com.au/community-news/21795-friend-of-bangladesh-dr-geoffrey-davis-passes-away.html|archive-date=20 August 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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{{cite news|last=Age|first=The|title=Women only at abortion meeting|newspaper=The Age|date=16 June 1975}}<br />
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{{cite journal|last=Davis|first=Geoffrey|author2=Antonia Church|title=Prior induced abortion experience among clinic patients in Australia|journal=Journal of Biosocial Science|year=1979|volume=11|issue=1|pages=77–83|doi=10.1017/S0021932000012062|pmid=422599}}<br />
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{{cite book | last = Brownmiller | first = Susan | title = The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary | year = 2007 | publisher = University of Pennsylvania Press | isbn = 978-0812219821 | edition=Annotated | editor=William F. Schulz | page = 92<br />
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{{cite journal|last=Mookherjee|first=Nayanika|title=Available Motherhood: Legal technologies, 'state of exception' and the dekinning of 'war-babies' in Bangladesh|journal=Childhood|year=2007|volume=14|issue=3|pages=339–355|doi=10.1177/0907568207079213|s2cid=144568760|url=http://chd.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/3/339}}</ref><br />
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{{cite book|last=Mookherjee|first=Nayanika|title=Rape in Wartime|year=2012|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0230363991|page=77|editor1=Raphaelle Branche |editor1-link=Raphaelle Branche |editor2=Fabrice Virgili}}<br />
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{{cite news|last=D'Costa|first=Bina|title=1971: Rape and its consequences|url=http://opinion.bdnews24.com/2010/12/15/1971-rape-and-its-consequences/|newspaper=BD News24|date=15 December 2022}}<br />
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{{cite news|last=Hossain|first=Anushay|title=1971 Rapes: Bangladesh Cannot Hide History|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldviews/2012/05/21/1971-rapes-bangladesh-cannot-hide-history/|newspaper=Forbes|date=21 May 2022}}<br />
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