Last week Feministing reported how the first-ever national guidelines on treating sexual assault survivors would have no mention of emergency contraception. I’m glad to say this truly disturbing news didn’t go unnoticed.
Today 97 members of Congress, lead by Reps. Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-14) and Michael Michaud (ME-02), urged the Justice Department to include EC in its National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examination.
"Deleting the mere mention of emergency contraception from the guidelines may cause thousands of rape victims to unnecessarily struggle with unwanted pregnancies," said Maloney. "Politics should never eclipse sound science and health care. It is clear that the administration's ideological opposition to choice now even extends to rape victims. Women who are sexually violated at the very least deserve the right to prevent unwanted pregnancies."
Well done. Now let’s see how it’s received…
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Cool! I wonder if there's a way we can contact them all at once to thank them? (I have a weird thing with my computer and opening PDFs so I can't check right now to see if there's a list of names).
Hopefully the attack from the right on womens reproductive rights will continue to be met with a unified Democratic party in support of womens rights.
In a few weeks (DNC chair elections) we'll see if the Democrats will be accomodationists for the next two years, or if they will be the opposition from hell for old George.
House Democrats happen to be on top of the ball, I'm more worried however about Senate Democrats worrying more about themselves instead of the party as a whole.
One of the good affects of Bush winning the election you could say is that the liberals will be forced to get more and more established. The extreme right started their campaign for political domination in the 60s. Liberals have begun the same thing with Air America radio, Gore's in the making "liberal version of FOX," moveon.org, and so many more.
Interesting -- isn't it? -- that some critics who are shocked at rape used as a weapon of war and genocide, suddenly change their tune when discussing rape in the U.S. by U.S. citizens. If they advocated denying contraception to the women in Bosnia, or Rwanda, they might be complicit in genocide. Why should it be less serious at home?
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