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...back, she couldn't fight. If she bit her assailant, she worried he'd hit her and break even more bones. She vowed not to scream, but every time he knocked her broken arms, she couldn't stop a scream of pain. Her main worry wasn't rape, she says, but rather that the shackled Dunlap might get himself shot trying to defend her. "Other than that, it didn't make a big impression on me," she says, shrugging. "You're supposed to look at this as a fate worse than death. Having faced both, I can tell...
...eight days, she was in Iraqi custody. Although the fear was frequently palpable, she was never tortured and her chief enemy, she says, was boredom. "Being a POW is the rape of your entire life. But what I learned in those Iraqi bunkers and prison cells is that the experience doesn't have to be devastating, that it depends on you," she writes...
Right now, Planned Parenthood is sponsoring new legislation in Massachusetts, which would allow certain pharmacists to dispense EC without a prescription and would require state’s hospitals to provide information to rape victims. EC is already available without a prescription in over 13 countries worldwide, including the United Kingdom and France. This month Planned Parenthood also launched a new program, which allows women to request EC from the organization’s nurse practitioners over the internet (Planned Parenthood already runs similar programs in Chicago, Indiana, Oregon and Georgia). These attempts to publicize and politicize EC need public...
...perfect world, contraception would be 100 percent effective, no one would have sex until they were ready and every child conceived would be wanted. But in our world, method failure, bad judgment and rape are ever-present realities. We can spend our time lamenting their existence, and pretending they don’t affect us. Or we can face reality and do everything in our power to make terrible situations just a little less terrible. Emergency Contraception (EC) does not make the issue go away, but it does provide women a safe and effective option for preventing unwanted pregnancies...
Emergency Contraception could also provide a major benefit to the more than 300,000 women, who are victims of rape each year in the U.S. About 25,000 of these women will become pregnant as a result of the rape, and almost 22,000 of these pregnancies could be prevented with EC. The American Medical Association guidelines state that women who have been sexually abused should be counseled about the risk of pregnancy and offered EC. However, 20 percent of hospital emergency rooms in Massachusetts do not offer EC to rape victims. There is mounting evidence that religiously affiliated hospitals...