emergency contraception: access denied

[jrtom]

Morality clauses, EC, and broken condoms

An enraged and enraging first-person account of someone's unsuccessful attempt to get access to EC in rural Ohio.

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[jrtom.livejournal.com]

What you said, basically. :P I also found the "married" thing bizarre--the only sense that it makes to me is if you assume that they were asking because they felt that she should have discussed things with her husband (or perhaps even "received permission"). That is, not "we won't prescribe EC because you're not married" but "we won't prescribe EC because we aren't sure you have permission from the hypothetical father". Which engenders (heh) an entirely different sort of rant, but at least makes more sense than "we want unwed women to have more abortions". I've reread the original article, and I can't tell from it exactly what context that question came up in.

Anyway. Much anger. Yes.