The Chicago Tribune reports that many sexual assault survivors are not getting emergency contraception. Terrific.

Only 60 percent of 156 hospitals surveyed "always" provide emergency contraception to women who want to terminate possible pregnancies after a sexual assault, the study found. Another 31 percent of hospitals "sometimes" supply the contraception.

"Some of the time isn't good enough for a woman who wants to protect herself after this profound trauma," said [Dr. Ashleta] Patel, who presented her findings in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "We can do better."

I would fucking say so!

The state had recently made progress on emergency contraception availability when Governor Rod Blagojevich filed an emergency ruling that Illinois pharmacies “must accept and fill prescriptions for contraceptives without delay,” in response to a number of asshole pharmacists.