{"id":1508,"date":"2005-01-07T16:28:33","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T23:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/pro-birthers-dont-give-a-damn-about-women-or-children-just-fetuses\/"},"modified":"2005-01-07T16:28:33","modified_gmt":"2005-01-07T23:28:33","slug":"pro-birthers-dont-give-a-damn-about-women-or-children-just-fetuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/pro-birthers-dont-give-a-damn-about-women-or-children-just-fetuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-birthers Don’t Give A Damn About Women or Children, Just Fetuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: New rape-treatment debate<\/a> By Marie McCullough, Knight Ridder Newspapers<\/p>\n

The Justice Department has issued its first-ever medical guidelines for treating sexual-assault victims \u2014 without mention of emergency contraception, the standard precaution against pregnancy after rape. …<\/p>\n

In the half-page on pregnancy “risk evaluation and care,” the protocol says to take victims’ pregnancy fears “seriously,” give a pregnancy test, and “discuss treatment options, including reproductive-health services.”<\/p>\n

Advocates note that emergency contraception \u2014 nothing more than high-dose birth-control pills \u2014 reduces the chance of pregnancy 75 to 90 percent, but only if taken within 72 hours of sex. …<\/p>\n

The development of national guidelines was required under the 2000 renewal of the decade-old federal Violence Against Women Act to develop uniform, quality care for sexual-assault victims. …<\/p>\n

Emergency contraception is controversial because, like stem cells and cloning, it has become tangled in the politics of abortion. The method usually works by keeping an egg from being released or being fertilized. However, it sometimes may prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus \u2014 equated with murder by some conservative groups and the Catholic Church (which opposes all forms of contraception).<\/p>\n

“I think it’s very smart not to put that in the guidelines,” said Dr. George Isajiw, a board member of Physicians for Life, a Philadelphia anti-abortion group.<\/p>\n

By giving emergency contraception, he said, “you’re giving a dangerous drug that’s not doing any good, or else you’re causing an abortion. As a moral principle, a woman has the right to defend herself against an aggressor. But she doesn’t have the right to kill the baby<\/b>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: New rape-treatment debate By Marie McCullough, Knight Ridder Newspapers The Justice Department has issued its first-ever medical guidelines for treating sexual-assault victims \u2014 without mention of emergency contraception, the standard precaution against pregnancy after rape. … In the half-page on pregnancy “risk evaluation and care,” the protocol says to … Continue reading Pro-birthers Don’t Give A Damn About Women or Children, Just Fetuses<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}