The secret is that they don’t actually give a damn about the sanctity of life, either.
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We’ve replaced this republican’s ethical and moral compass with a jar of Sanka and a lump of clay. Lets see if they can tell the difference.
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Don’t forget the 2 law makers in Nebraska!
If you’re poor, it’s a distinction without much difference, though.
making sure women are forced to give birth, whatever the circumstances. 
I think the goal is controlling women, ultimately.
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Well, of course it’s all symbolic. She is “cut in half” in the sense that ownership is divided temporarily. The rapist owns her body for the nine months that she is forced to carry his baby to term, then is transferred back to the original owner once the forced birth occurs. You see, men can be perfectly rational and gentlemanly about all this with each other once you remove all that woke human rights mumbo jumbo.
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I’m guessing that replacement would be less malevolent, so you could probably tell.
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True, but misleading headlines (and folks who dogpile without fact checking) scare those who can afford to help themselves or who could financially help others – into thinking there is no alternative. 
Misinformation is no help whatsoever.
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What is misleading about the headline? Iowa was providing emergency contraceptives to rape victims. Now they aren’t.
Just because the rape victim can try to find a provider who will write them a prescription (maybe) for emergency contraceptives they can afford (maybe) doesn’t mean that everything is OK. It isn’t.
My understanding is that they were automatically provided to rape victims, no questions asked (that’s how it works in ERs in my state). Now, the hospital won’t automatically provide them, and the victim has to have the wherewithal to get them through self-service. Which means most won’t get them. That’s the nature of our complicated and labyrinthine healthcare system.
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Iowa was paying pending claims at the time. Now they aren’t.
“As a part of her top-down, bottom-up audit of victim assistance, Attorney General Bird is carefully evaluating whether this is an appropriate use of public funds,” Bird Press Secretary Alyssa Brouillet said in a statement. “Until that review is complete, payment of these pending claims will be delayed.”
But you live in a progressive state. Most folks don’t. And many aren’t even informed by the facility performing a rape kit. So, often those who get the EC after the fact must be re-imbursed.
ETA: I mean, I can see how conservatives want to make things like this impermissible, but as long as it is possible to get EC with or without the state providing the pertinent information, it makes a difference on whether the information is available elsewhere and if it is accurate.
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And trans people. I know it looks like I am making it about me, but it’s the same battle for our bodily autonomy.
We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Attributed to Benjamin Franklin
Would you trust an app?
Now is a good time to learn how to use VPNs and Tor. Do it now before it is too late.
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This is why correct information is crucial. There are many free clinics who offer EC for those who need it, on an income sliding scale all the way down to “free”, and many women are just not being provided that information.
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My friends and I who are LGBTQ already have such a book , informally created between us for use when we travel home since many of us are from southern states.
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But that’s what the backend looks like when the front end is ERs automatically providing EC. The ER stocks the medication and applies to the state for reimbursement. If the state is no longer paying pending claims, some hospitals will stop stocking EC.
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It simply does not look like the case for Iowa…
Iowa does not require emergency rooms to provide EC or information on ED to rape survivors.
Though, with the correct information provided those who need help can find it if they look. Folks experiencing trauma should not have to look for themselves, but there it is.
If you have been raped and you want EC, call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). Open 24 hours, the hotline will connect you to EC providers near you. For other helpful information, check out the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network’s Web site.
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I have been referring to these as “free states.”
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And again, if the government refuses to offer this information, and there isn’t a free clinic nearby anyway, isn’t that the same thing as denying women care?
So, women who have just been raped need to be the ones who “do their own research”?
Exactly, which is why this is a huge problem! Traumatized people need support and care, and the state should not be in the business of denying their citizens that care.
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Of course, but as I stated, denying EC at the time of the rape kit/not providing information about EC – and not paying for EC – are not the same thing.
But there is a difference between not requiring EC by law and automatically providing it voluntarily because it is part of the best practice guidelines in emergency medicine. The latter is true in Iowa as much as everywhere, but state funding can change hospital policy regardless of practice guidelines.
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Still, my original point (and the article – as well as many other news agencies) is not about availability, but rather, compensation.
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But how, exactly, do you think this is going to play out? Given how the GOP operates - do you think that nurses or doctors advising patients on getting EC are not going to be penalized for doing so?
They want women to be stuck to their “natural” reproduction, not to have choices. They are just fine with women who have been raped carrying a rapists baby to term, because we are not human beings to them, but merely vessels to birth more “soldiers for Christ”…
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