Rape kits and the morning after pills

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 11:40 AM PDT

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Did Sarah Palin support making rape victims pay for their own rape kits because there was a morning after pill in the kit?

Seems this may be the case.

Right-wing news outlets are peddling this as a justification for her actions today.

Does that mean that Palin's policy would force rape victims to have the child or their rapists?

Alaska's Department of Health and Social Services website advocates use of emergency contraception within 72 hours after unprotected intercourse to reduce the risk of pregnancy by 75 percent or more. Two types of emergency contraceptive medication are commonly used:

The first consists of ordinary oral contraceptive pills containing estrogen and progestin (combined ECPs). One brand in this category called "Preven" is specifically packaged and labeled for emergency use.

The second ECP type contains only progestin and is marketed under the brand name Plan B.

Palin, a mother of five children, has a pro-life voting record and has not indicated support for the morning-after pill. She is a member of the anti-abortion group Feminists for Life. The organization has warned women against "blindly accepting" morning after pills as just another artificial contraceptive method. It claims Planned Parenthood and other proponents push the medication as a way to prevent pregnancy.

"Although these supporters call morning-after pills 'emergency contraception,' the term is a misnomer, as the pills actually act as an abortifacient in many cases by preventing the implantation of an already-fertilized human embryo," a 1999 Feminists for Life newsletter stated.

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