Students Protest Moral Convictions
by Communications
[2.12.2007]
The Yale Daily News reports that some students have been protesting outside of Catholic hospitals that refuse to administer abortifacient emergency contraception to patients. The Connecticut legislature is considering a bill that would require all Catholic hospitals to abandon their values and provide these drugs.
St Raphael's Catholic Hospital in New Haven, CT has recently experienced a surge of protests by local Yale students. The hospital, which upholds Catholic teachings on contraception and abortion, does not provide emergency contraception to its patients. One nursing student stated, “Emergency contraception is a vital part of the mental and physical health of the victim [of sexual assault], and it’s absurd that women would have to go elsewhere to get it,” according to Yale Daily News. Some people might think it absurd to assert that a assault victim's mental and physical health is fundamentally incomplete without an abortifacient drug.
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