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The state House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill to require all hospitals to offer rape victims emergency contraception, over objections from Catholic leaders who say it infringes on their religious rights.

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STONERS
May 2, 2007, 10:16 p.m.
The emergency contraception, known as Plan B, is a concentrated dose of the same drug found in many regular birth-control pills. Taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, a woman can lower the risk of pregnancy by up to 89 percent. If she is already pregnant, the pills have no effect.
Church leaders say the pills could cause an abortion. Last year, Hartford Archbishop Henry J. Mansell directed the four Catholic hospitals in the state not to prescribe the drug if a rape victim is ovulating or an egg has been fertilized.
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doppich
May 3, 2007, 5 p.m.
Good for CT. Taking on the theocrats doesn't quite make up for inflicting Lieberman upon America, but it's a good start.
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toph1973
May 3, 2007, 5:10 p.m.
This is good. A hospital should have to render aid no matter what their "beliefs" they have. To not give these pills to a rape or incest victim is just despicable. If they did this just once the hospital should be shut down.