Administration tries to keep emergency contraception from rape victims
You’re not going to believe this. From The Philadelphia Inquirer (free registration is required to read the whole piece):
The U.S. Department of Justice has issued its first-ever medical guidelines for treating sexual-assault victims - without any mention of emergency contraception, the standard precaution against pregnancy after rape.
WHAT?! Developing a national model for post-sexual assault care means putting forward guidelines that state and local agencies can look to as the standard. Keeping emergency contraception out of the picture is just reprehensible--rape victims need to know ALL of their options.
Thanks to Diane for the link.
Posted by Jessica - January 03, 2005, at 10:18AM
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Someday, hopefully, we're going to stop passing legislation based on what people imagined Jesus would have wanted based on some obscure line in a 2000 year old book that Jesus didn't even write.
Hey, while we're at it, why don't we pass a law that says the officers on the scene have to laugh at the rape victim if she's crying? This world can be so ridiculous.
There's more here. This gives a glimpse of how the cons view women's issues in general, never mind birth control, rape or abortion rights. This is not a new issue at all. It's a patriarchal "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
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