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December 22, 2005
ACLU: Bush administration won't explain silence on EC
You probably remember that the first-ever federal guidelines for treating victims of sexual assault--put out by the Justice Department--didn’t even mention emergency contraception.
Well, apparently the Bush administration doesn’t want to explain why.
Melling said Wednesday there was no scientific or medical reason not to include emergency contraception in the guidelines aimed at helping the between 4,000 and 25,000 women annually who are estimated to become pregnant as a result of rape.
The ACLU, representing a large number of other orgs, sent a Freedom of Information Act concerning the guidelines after they heard that information on EC was taken out of the final draft. What they got back was troubling--all the information sent to the ACLU talked in detail about EC, making it clear that a deliberate decision was made to keep this info out of the final guidelines.
Posted by Jessica at December 22, 2005 11:12 AM
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With all due respect, do they really need to? The stall on the approval of over-the-counter status for emergency contraception is directed by a Bush Administration-run FDA. As far as I am concerned, that says enough.
But for the sake of credibility, they could at least come out and say it. But that will never happen, and we all know that. After all, credibility, like democracy, is for wimps, right?
Posted by: Malafides Lucius at December 31, 2005 9:33 AM