Hospitals May Be Forced To Tell Rape Victims Of Emergency Contraception

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Hospitals May Be Forced To Tell Rape Victims Of Emergency Contraception
Bill Failed Twice In Previous Years

POSTED: 9:45 am MST January 24, 2005
UPDATED: 5:53 pm MST January 24, 2005

DENVER -- Democratic Rep. Betty Boyd proposed a bill Monday that would require all hospitals to inform sexual assault victims of the availability of emergency contraception.

The bill had been introduced the past two years but both times the bill died in a Senate committee. Proponents are hopeful this year since there is a majority of Democrats in the Legislature, and say the bill will be beneficial to the 300,000 women who are sexually assaulted every year in America because it gives a woman the needed information to make a decision about what is best for her.

Of the 300,000 women assaulted every year, between 25,000 and 32,000 become pregnant as a result, 7NEWS reported.

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"If women get this information within 120 hours after being raped, they can prevent the additional trauma of an unintended pregnancy in addition to the trauma of the rape," said Boyd. "Rape is about a loss of control and you need to be able to give that control back to the victims so that they can move forward in their healing process."

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