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...raped [date]” in black permanent marker had been followed by a second date in white-out.To the left of the two dates there had been a large paragraph on how rape is a crime that needs to be reported. By all means write here, it read, but report...
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...
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...
...country’s elected officials hesitate to enact legislation to provide proper hospital care for rape victims, while the rape victims go home filled with shame and anxiety. But withholding emergency contraceptives is more than political paralysis—it’s inhuman...