TX Legislature to tackle emergency contraception bill

[rainbow4321]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D87VA6SG0.html


Texas hospitals would have to provide rape victims with a prescription for emergency contraception and give them a minimum of care, including privacy during exams and referrals for counseling, under a pair of bills being considered by the Legislature

But like most issues that involve sex and pregnancy, emergency contraception and its availability has generated heated debate. Anti-abortion groups and some hospitals have raised objections to what drugs and treatment victims must be offered

Texas Right to Life, which opposes abortion, also opposes emergency contraception because of its potential interference with a fertilized egg, said spokeswoman Elizabeth Graham.

Yet many private and religious-affiliated hospitals won't offer emergency contraception prescriptions because of religious beliefs. A 2003 survey by the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault, found that 60 percent of emergency rooms don't offer emergency contraception to rape victims. "There are people or groups or faiths who see emergency contraception as a form of abortion," said Jennifer Banda, spokeswoman for the Texas Hospital Association.

[Sandpiper]

1. Well, when a member of one of these religious groups gets raped

Then they are perfectly free to refuse emergency contraception.

And yet, I have a sneaking suspicion that most of them wouldn't.

[EVDebs]

2. We need to get a black market going on "Plan B"... the pharma companies

will turn on the "Pro Lifers" as they like to call themselves (actually they are "Anti Contraception of any kind").

Didn't know zygotes have rights in Texas (the part about 'interfering with a fertilized egg'...).

[Fleshdancer]

3. Abusing the victims of abuse. THIS is pro-LIFE???

I can't imagine anyone looking into the eyes of a woman who has just been sexually tortured and take it upon him/herself to make the personal judgement that a baby should result from such a hell.

If you look at a woman and can't see anything beyond her womb, then you're not pro-life. It's that simple.

[Vinca]

4. Are these people standing in line to adopt??

"Texas Right to Life, which opposes abortion, also opposes emergency contraception because of its potential interference with a fertilized egg, said spokeswoman Elizabeth Graham."

Going beyond the horror of a raped woman becoming pregnant with the attacker's child, are the right to life people so adamently against contraception - before and after the fact - lining up to adopt unwanted babies? You never hear anything about it, if it's happening. It's fine to worship a fertilized egg, but it wouldn't hurt to worship the child it produces. The end product needs to be in a loving home, not a warehouse. Do they think that far ahead? Do they ever get beyond the egg??