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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rape Victim Can Sue for Denied Contraception [View all]
A Tampa rape victim can sue the Hillsborough County Sheriff for allowing a jail guard to refuse to give her a prescribed emergency contraception pill because it was against the guard's religious beliefs, a federal judge ruled.
R.W., whose full name is not disclosed in court records, says she was raped on Jan. 27, 2007. After an examination at Tampa's Rape Crisis Center, a doctor gave R.W. gave two anti-contraception pills, according to the complaint.
R.W. says she took one pill immediately and held the other to ingest 12 hours later, as directed.
While taking R.W.'s report of the crime, however, a Tampa police officer learned that there was an arrest warrant for R.W. for failure to pay restitution and failure to appear. At the Hillsborough County Jail, staff confiscated her second pill.
R.W. says she requested her second pill the next morning, but jail employee Michele Spinelli refused. "Spinelli told the Plaintiff that she would not give R.W. the pill because it was against Spinelli's religious beliefs," the first amended complaint states.
Although R.W. did not get pregnant, she sued Spinelli and Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee for gender discrimination and violations of the right to privacy and the right to equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
R.W., whose full name is not disclosed in court records, says she was raped on Jan. 27, 2007. After an examination at Tampa's Rape Crisis Center, a doctor gave R.W. gave two anti-contraception pills, according to the complaint.
R.W. says she took one pill immediately and held the other to ingest 12 hours later, as directed.
While taking R.W.'s report of the crime, however, a Tampa police officer learned that there was an arrest warrant for R.W. for failure to pay restitution and failure to appear. At the Hillsborough County Jail, staff confiscated her second pill.
R.W. says she requested her second pill the next morning, but jail employee Michele Spinelli refused. "Spinelli told the Plaintiff that she would not give R.W. the pill because it was against Spinelli's religious beliefs," the first amended complaint states.
Although R.W. did not get pregnant, she sued Spinelli and Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee for gender discrimination and violations of the right to privacy and the right to equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/06/25/47785.htm
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as i have said in the past, we had the dominists come down to this part of the panhandle about 2003
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#14
Damn straight...want to practice religious beliefs go to church/synagogue/mosque...
truebrit71
Jun 2012
#47
again, why i had issue a couple years ago when a man was hitting woman in stomach... or something
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#26
I hope she beats them good so they will wish they never jailed her in the first place.
southernyankeebelle
Jun 2012
#5
it seems to me, a couple decades ago, where they could not arrest someone for something in their
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#15
Considering how many untested rape kits are sitting around in police departments...
redqueen
Jun 2012
#18
not sure what you are saying. but, in wisc, the woman state senator said she was jewish and in her
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#16
actually spinelli's actions sets up the victim for an actual abortion, that spinelli is so adament
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#23
that is how i see it. but, we do it on our side. put up a story about a doctor not treating kids
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#27
see... lol. this would be one. and for me it is simply, the doctor has the responsibility to take
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#32
no justifying on my part. i am consistent. gonna be a doctor... do your job. nt
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#45