Important Hearing in Hartford Tuesday
From CTBob who is reporting via Tessa at My Left Nutmeg:
The Human Services Committee is holding hearings on Tuesday March 13th on SB 1343 – An Act Concerning Compassionate Care For Victims of Sexual Assault.
It is not just a matter of going there and hanging around the hallways, since the “Family” Institute is planning a very active resistance to this Bill. This time we need people, lots of people, to go to Hartford.
As a reminder, this is to try to get the hospitals, and the employees of the hospitals, to offer the option of the Plan B contraceptive to female rape victims. Peculiarly, the hospitals and some nursing professionals are refusing to provide the pill, or the information that the pill exists, to their patients.
Tuesday (March 13th), 1pm in Room 1C of the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.
No surprise here, but the FIC is opposed, and CTBob lays it out:
What FIC doesn’t appear to understand is that despite their lies about the possibility that Plan B can trigger an abortion in an already pregnant victim, their policy would lead to INCREASED abortions by women who are DENIED this legal treatment at publicly-funded Catholic hospitals and become victims of unwanted pregnancies.
Don’t you people get it?
This will result in MORE abortions, not fewer.
Because they are bound by their chains of dogmatic religious reasoning, the FICers seem to be utterly incapable of understanding this. And if they get their way in this issue, they will be directly responsible for those additional abortions.
The FIC is playing on ignorance here. Bigtime. Plan B or Emergency Contraception will not cause an abortion. No matter how many times the FIC says so, it is just not true.