We are already making things worse with our air strikes in Iraq.

[reorg]

61. not so quick

the OP states:

"Whether these women will be executed if more strikes are made, or if they will just be used as human shields to try and deter such future strikes, there is little doubt their lives (at least) have definitely gotten worse since our decision to re-intervene."

The date when these women were abducted is obviously irrelevant as to their endangerment due to the airstrikes.

Of course, I am aware that the abduction was reported earlier and I watched on YouTube a female member of parliament in Iraq crying out in tears that Yazidi women are being "taken captive and sold on the slave market" (several times) and warning of an impending genocide. A scene eerily reminiscent of the speech given by the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S. in October 1990 and which I watched on TV at the time, finally being swayed a little towards supporting an intervention, after harbouring many doubts about its real purpose.

Likewise, I have little doubt that all of what was reported may well be exactly true. After all, the MP was only asking for solidarity and intervention by the Iraqi authorities, not for the US to drop bombs.