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...Hager becomes chairman of the 11-member Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee, he will lead its study of hormone-replacement therapy for menopausal women, one of the biggest controversies in health care. Some conservatives are trying to use doubts about such therapy to discredit the use of birth-control pills, which contain similar compounds. The panel also made the key recommendation in 1996 that led to approval of the "abortion pill," RU-486-a decision that abortion foes are still fighting. Hager assisted the Christian Medical Association last August in a "citizens' petition" calling upon the FDA to reverse itself...
...only does the morning-after pill have a limited time frame of effectiveness, but many Catholic hospitals serve as the primary source of health care in low-income areas of many cities. Sometimes a Catholic hospital is a community’s only provider—leaving sexual assault survivors with very little chance of being taken to a hospital that will provide her with the treatment she needs. These victims have nowhere else...
While there are no federal laws requiring doctors or hospitals to offer the morning-after pill to rape victims, it is their responsibility to provide medical services, including emergency drugs, to patients in crisis. Simply, emergency rooms should provide emergency care. For a woman to be sexually assaulted is a trauma that cannot be easily dealt with or forgotten. Many women are reluctant to report a rape or to even visit the hospital—only 15 to 30 percent of rapes are ultimately reported to the police, an estimated 95,000 per year according to the U.S. Justice Department...
Washington and Illinois are the only two states that have passed laws to make it easier for rape victims to get the morning-after pill, but a national law is necessary to require all hospitals that receive federal funding to provide this treatment to rape victims. This would also apply to Catholic hospitals since they make up 10 out of the 20 largest not-for-profit hospital systems in the U.S., and 159 have merged with non-Catholic hospitals in the past decade. As most state laws stand now, each individual hospital has discretion...
...victim might walk into one hospital and go home with the small comfort that at least she’s not carrying her rapist’s child, but a women taken to another hospital could walk out not even knowing the very existence of a safe pill that prevents pregnancy...