Governor Neil Abercrombie has signed a bill requiring hospitals to offer emergency contraception to rape victims no matter what a physician, nurse, or administrator believes.
The war on women continues as Republicans in Missouri unveiled a bill in the general assembly that would allow doctors to judge a woman’s worth to medical care based on religious grounds..
A Republican lawmaker tried to amend the bill based on religious reasons, but Democrats were quick to reject that.
In a giant step forward for the Catholic Church, the German Bishops’ Conference said on Thursday that church-run hospitals can now give rape victims the ‘morning-after’ pill.
Texas wants women to have babies so much that lawmakers are willing to spend part of the state’s very limited budget to reward companies that deny insured reproductive healthcare to women.
The arts and crafts chain will pay more than a million dollars a day for defying federal law and imposing the owners’ religious beliefs on employees.
At the center of the controversy is the dispute over how emergency contraception works. Scientists have known for ten years that it does not act to abort a fertilized egg.
An Illinois court allows pharmacists and medical corporations to refuse care on religious grounds.
A woman is raped. She is given emergency contraception. When she reports the rape, she is arrested for outstanding warrants. Then, the contraception is taken away from her.
