DOJ omits emergency contraception from rape guidelines

"The U.S. Department of Justice has issued its first-ever medical guidelines for treating sexual-assault victims - without any mention of emergency contraception, the standard precaution against pregnancy after rape," the Philadelphia Inquirer reports."

Gail Burns-Smith, one of several dozen experts who vetted the protocol during its three-year development by Justice's Office on Violence Against Women, said emergency contraception was included in an early draft, and she does not know of anyone who opposed it.

'But in the climate in which we are currently operating, politically it's a hot potato,' said Burns-Smith, retired director of Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services

....The controversy has erupted just weeks before the Food and Drug Administration is scheduled to reconsider whether to make it easier to get emergency contraception. A year ago, the FDA rejected nonprescription sales of Plan B, an emergency contraceptive. The ruling delighted conservative groups that had lobbied the Bush administration but went against the FDA's own staff, advisory panels and major medical societies."

Now this is the kind of thing I've talked about before. How far-right policies things like this are happening without many people knowing about it. I would to wager to bet that even many people who consider themselves to be pro-life would be against policies that stifle raped woman from getting contraception (and in most cases it is indeed contraception, not abortion) to treat her pregnancy.