Rape Victim Arrested, Then Denied Morning After Pill

[dukedogsmom]

If you have a job that interferes with your religion, then you should find other employment. What gave this person the right to do this? This infuriates me

so wrong

[lady_zana]

If you have a job that interferes with your religion, then you should find other employment. What gave this person the right to do this? This infuriates me

I completely agree; it was not the medical supervior's place to agree or not to agree with the doctor's prescription. The medical supervior should have given the pill - the young woman's health should have been their first concern, not her own religion.

[Kfamr]

Disgusting.. just absolutely disgusting. My friends and I were talking about this over dinner tonight.

"As a human being, how someone could be so violated by this monster and then the system comes along and rapes her again psychologically and emotionally - it's outrageous and unconscionable."

Explains my thoughts about it perfectly. To be raped, arrested, and then denied medication from some religious-shoving idiot. This girl is going to be scarred for life - double time.

Does anyone know if she was eventually given the pill? What if she becomes pregnant - what will she tell the child IF she decides to follow through?

[CathyBogart]

Despicable

[borzoimom]

I do not understand this at all. Its her right to decide and in the case of rape, it is her right for sure. I couldnt read the whole thing because my spyware kept blocking it- but am I right in reading they did not fill the doctors perscription??? How can they do that???

[emily_the_spoiled]

She was eventually given the second dose of the pill. Unfortunately it was 72 hours after the rape occurred and it is much less effective than if it had been given when it was supposed to be.

[columbine]

I just hope she keeps written records of it all, in case she does turn out to be pregnant. Especially if she turns out to be pregnant and positive for HIV or hepatitis.

[ramanth]

Saw this posted at LJ and I'm extremely saddened and disgusted.

[lvpets2002]

That is so disgusting.. Poor Woman.. I hope she can slam the door in their face & get someones job out of this.. This is just too horrible..

[areias]

I feel bad for her-I really do, if that's what actually happened, but I think something fishy is going on there. She wouldn't be walking back to her car from Gasparilla, if she was crossing Howard and Swann. That's probably a good 5-10 miles away!

Everyone should be allowed their right to medication, no matter their circumstances-why didn't the girl go to someone else, though?

[CathyBogart]

She couldn't go to someone else because she was IN JAIL.

[jackie]

I hope the supervisor who denied her the MAP is fired.

This is absolutely disgusting.

[pitc9]

WOW!!

Makes me want to puke!!

[JenBKR]

That just makes me sick. She should have been given the pills she was prescribed. Not that it should matter, but the morning after pill is to keep someone from getting pregnant, not to abort an egg that has already been fertilized. In any case, she still should have had the right to the pills.

[Prairie Purrs]

Whenever I hear about some fundy blocking a woman's rightful access to the morning after pill, I wonder:

(1) How many pharmacists are demanding that men display marriage certificates before they can get their Viagra prescriptions filled?

(2) What if a pharmacist is a Christian Scientist and refuses to fill prescriptions for anybody?

(3) What if a doctor is a Jehovah's Witness and refuses to authorize a blood transfusion for a patient?

It shouldn't be that hard to figure out that one person's right to free exercise of religion should not be allowed to interfere with another person's right to medical treatment.