Second page of rape mailer is correct

[ Coakley's campaign didn't make the mailer, but one page of it is correct anyway. ]

The second page is substantially correct (except perhaps for the fine print which I can't read).

"Scott Brown would allow hospitals to ban emergency contraception birth control even after women are raped."

His 2005 amendment did allow a hospital to refer all rape victims wanting emergency contraception 'to another facility'.

"sponsoring a law to let hospitals turn away rape victims in need of emergency contraception"

That is what his 2005 amendment allowed: refer 'to another facility.'

The text in the image may be misleading about the time frame if it is referring only to Brown's failed 2005 amendment. If Brown is currently sponsoring such a law, I haven't heard about it.

The picture is quite appropriate imo. It shows a woman in a hospital gown and wheel chair who would have difficulty and discomfort being transferred 'to another facility.' Actually the picture understates the mailer's case. It might have shown the woman on an x-ray table or in a hospital bed connected to tubes and in traction. No matter the woman's condition, per Brown's amendment the hospital could still insist that if she wanted a morning after pill she would have to be taken 'to another facility.' In fact of course this means she would be confined in the first hospital with no access to the morning after pill till she was well enough to get out, by which time it would be too late.

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