Plan B

Here in Connecticut there is a debate going on over a bill to require all medical facilities in Connecticut to provide emergency contraceptives to rape victims and there is strong resistance to the bill because of the religious right.

I believe that all hospital that severe the public should be required to prescribe all legal medications, including the morning after pill. The argument against it is that the rape victim can go to another hospital to get the morning after pill, but suppose they are so badly beating that they cannot be transported to another hospital. In Waterbury the nearest hospitals besides St. Mary’s I believe are in Meriden, New Haven, Danbury and Torrington and that is a long way to transport a patient who is critically ill.I guess Waterbury Hospital is near by. If the hospitals want to make exceptions then let them become private hospitals that only admit patients of their own faith, but once they want to serve the public they should be required to honor all medical needs. Otherwise where do we draw the lines?

Would they have to honor a Living Will if it violates their tenets of their faith? Would they have to admit gays and lesbians or would they have to honor Civil Unions? Where do we draw the line?

Religious organizations own a lot of apartment buildings that they rent to the public; can they deny renting to unmarried couples? After all that violates their religious beliefs.

If religious organizations receive exemptions from having to give out medications that they do not agree with then what is to stop them from denying others things. Where do we draw the line, once you start to let institutions that caters to the public deny certain services we start down a very slippery slope.