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According to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, more than 330,000 women are sexually assaulted—and about 25,000 of them become pregnant as a result. About 22,000 of those pregnancies could be prevented, the study estimates, if hospitals gave rape victims the morning-after pill, a combination of birth control pills that prevents ovulation, fertilization, or implantation of a fertilized egg. Unfortunately, that is not the reality...
Many hospitals, in fact, neglect their responsibility to offer the morning-after pill to sexual assault survivors as an option for reducing the risk of pregnancy. This is particularly shocking to see in predominantly liberal, democratic states. In a survey conducted two years ago by the Mass. NARAL Foundation indicates that over 50 percent of Massachusetts’s hospitals and community health centers fail to provide this emergency contraceptive consistently to women who request it. Of those, only a quarter provide accurate referrals to another accessible health care provider...
...survey done three years ago found that over 54 percent of emergency rooms in New York did not provide the morning-after pill to women who had been raped. In Pennsylvania, only 28 percent of hospitals routinely offer and provide it to sexual assault survivors. In fact, 12 percent of Pennsylvania hospitals do not provide any emergency contraception services...
...morning-after pill is a safe and effective means of reducing the risk of pregnancy if taken within 72 hours after unprotected sex. However, many anti-choice and Catholic-sponsored health groups, whose goal it is to eliminate abortion, oppose this important means of reducing unplanned pregnancies. They falsely claim it is an “aborifacient” and confuse it with the abortion-inducing mifepristone (RU-486), which in effect works by inducing a miscarriage...
...does occur in the middle of a defensive series, then Murphy, his vision blurred and his mind wandering, will trudge over to the sidelines and take a glucose pill. No big deal—10 minutes later, he’ll be fine...