Have you ever tried to obtain emergency contraception - the morning after pill - and been denied or encountered any sort of interference from doctors, nurses, or pharmacists who expressed religious objections to what your actions? If so, what did you do - were you able to obtain emergency contraception elsewhere? Share Your Stories
Their job or their license
- Any pharmacist who refuses to carry & dispense legal drugs based on their beliefs should loose their license,,, period! If the refuse and there turns out to be no reasonable medical reason they should be held responsible for any and all negative outcome for the woman, including paying child support. They operate under a government license and if they fail to do their job that license should be revoked.
- —Guest Borsia
Interesting
- If the Freakonomics guys have it right, there should be quite a crime wave in Erie, PA about twenty years after the changes went into effect. The points the authors make are enough to give the most skeptical pause already. Perhaps this will provide more.
- —MarvinII
No morning after pill.
- They didn't have the morning after pill when I was young and ocassionally careless. Fortunately, I never got pregnant. I did get my tubes tied and had to go to the '2nd rate' hospital as the 'good' hospital where I was living was Catholic run.
- —Guest Victori
Planned parenthood
- This is in response to the response above. I'm from Erie (haven't lived there I'm eight years, maybe things have changed) and I went to the PP on State street. I filled out the forms (medical and sexual histories) and was given a free exam and birth control pills when I said I had no insurance. It's worth noting that I didn't have to apply for Medicaid for these services; just said I had no insurance and that was it—no questions asked. Also, if I recall correctly, there was an abortion clinic in the plaza across the street.
- —Guest Sara
Difficulty Obtaining Birth Control
- I live in Erie, PA. There is no Planned Parenthood. For poor women without insurance, there is no access to any contraception (emergency or otherwise) or sterlization. For women who have money, it's still tought to get in a Catholic Rust Belt town due to "conscientious objector" laws under the 1st Amendment right of Chrisitans' "freedom of religion." Since where I live is the poorest area in the state, most women are poor and lack transportation and money or health insurance to pay for contraception.
- —Guest Jacqueline S. Homan
