Human Life of Washington Recommended for
Consideration
"Emergency Contraception"
Pro-life group challenges Senate
candidate’s support of forcing hospitals to dispense
morning-after pill
By Jill Stanek
"In 2002, Dino Rossi voted for
SB 6537 which forces
hospitals to promote emergency contraception to rape victims and
provide it upon request within 72 hours of sexual contact.
Emergency contraception, also known as “the morning after pill”,
causes an abortion if the woman is pregnant. The bill passed and
is now the law in WA state. Physicians, nurses and healthcare
workers in hospital emergency rooms are forced to act against
their conscience, which is formed by their professional training
as well as their moral, ethical and religious views…."
Excerpt retrieved Aug 11, 2010 from
http://www.jillstanek.com/2010/08/pro-life-group-challenges-senate-candidate%E2%80%99s-support-of-forcing-hospitals-to-dispense-morning-after-pill-2/
Bill—SB 6537 from 2002 is
being used to unjustly depict certain candidates as pro-choice and
opposed to ER workers right of conscience.
By Dan Kennedy
Human Life of Washington
Aug 10, 2010
That conclusion cannot be
justified for any who know the facts surrounding its passage.
PRIOR TO ITS PASSAGE, PRO-LIFE LEGISLATORS ASKED FOR INPUT FROM
HUMAN LIFE AND THE WASHINGTON STATE CATHOLIC CONFERENCE. This
bill was specifically approved by the three Catholic bishops and
their lobbyist, Sr. Sharon Park indicating it did not promote
abortion. It offered contraception options to women who were
raped. Pro-life legislators were quite concerned and asked for
the analysis. The WSCC signed off on the bill because they
stated that conception would not occur in the time period
provided in the bill. Assured by WSCC that the drugs in the
legislation act as a contraceptive, not an abortifacient, and
"hospitals" not ER workers are required to provide, they were
further assured no separate "conscience protection" in the bill
was necessary. Human Life of WA always pushed to include a
conscience clause, because we knew how the abortion lobby twists
any legislation, no matter the intent of the Legislature.
Whether the legislation accomplished this or not is a different
issue.
Excerpt retrieved Aug 11, 2010 from
http://humanlife.net/display_news.htm?nid=591
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