2009 Senate Bill 666 (Require offering emergency contraception to rape victims )

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Introduced by Sen. Gilda Jacobs (D) on June 25, 2009, to require health care facilities that provide treatment to a woman who has been raped to offer the “morning after pill” emergency contraception.
- Referred to the Senate Health Policy Committee on June 25, 2009.

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1) Re: 2009 Senate Bill 666 (Require offering emergency contraception to rape victims ) [by gypsy on July 3, 2009]

This seems like a very sensible and prudent requirement. Health care facilities will not be "dishing" out this drug, but making a legal drug available to a patient. It will still be the patients choice whether or not to take the drug. To not offer emergency contraception to a woman who has been raped seems to me a crime itself.

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2) Re: 2009 Senate Bill 666 (Require offering emergency contraception to rape victims ) [by jbennin on July 3, 2009]

Life has to be presumed present immediately after intercourse, regardless of how the woman is impregnated. This language is literally splitting hares when it determines that 24-48 hours after intercourse, the drug can be administered. Once that time line has passed, it is then considered termination? This is just flat wrong to force health care facilities to dish out this drug.

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3) 2009 Senate Bill 666 (Require offering emergency contraception to rape victims ) [by admin on January 1, 2001]
Introduced in the Senate on June 25, 2009

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