Morning-after pill and Catholic Hospitals

[cmotherofpirl]

Concerned Women for America is pleased that an advocate of the "morning-after" pill, also called Plan B, has admitted easy access to the drug has not reduced the incidence of unwanted pregnancies and abortions. Pro-abortion activists and politicians have demanded the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) make the high-dose morning-after pill available over-the-counter, although the same drug in lower doses requires a prescription. Plan B proponents' argument that easy access would reduce unintended pregnancies and abortions is partly based on a hypothesis from the Alan Guttmacher Institute; however, the experience in countries where the drug is available without a prescription show equal or higher rates of teen pregnancies and abortions and sexually transmitted diseases. Pressed by CWA executive vice president Wendy Wright at the National Press Club's Newsmaker Forum, the CEO of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project, Kirsten Moore, admitted there is no real evidence that easy access to the morning-after pill decreases the incidence of pregnancy or abortions, and she also conceded that increases have occurred in countries where it is easily accessible. Wright says Moore's admission "knocks the legs out from the hard-charging coalition intent on making this drug as easy to get as toothpaste." The CWA spokeswoman insists their claim that Plan B could reduce unwanted pregnancies and abortions by half is "based not on fact, but 'faith' with no substance in reality." [Jenni Parker]

...Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has abandoned plans to exempt Catholic and other private hospitals from a law requiring them to offer the "morning-after" pill to rape victims. Romney had initially backed regulations proposed by his public health commissioner, who said the new law conflicts with an older law barring the state from forcing private hospitals to dispense contraceptive devices or information. The Republican governor says his legal advisers told him that the new law supersedes the old law and that all hospitals should be required to offer the morning-after pill, although many Catholics and other Christians consider it to be a form of abortion. The law, which takes effect next Wednesday, was passed by the Legislature over Romney's veto. [AP]

[avemaria40]

If they're so ticked off about it, why don't they just make hositals where it is allowed, and leave the Catholic ones out of it?

Though I heard on a Catholic website that it's allright to give EC to rape victims as long as she's not ovulating. Is that true?

[Colleen]

Our governor gave our Atty. General permission to sue the FDA because they didn't like the fact that the FDA delayed its decision on making the morning after pill available over the counter. The governor said it wasn't fair to rape victims. He also vetoed a ban on cloning in our state recently.I really want them both voted out next year.