Posted on 06/29/2022 11:39:08 AM PDT by Callahan
A leading health system in Kansas City is no longer providing emergency contraception in Missouri after the state banned abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest.
Saint Luke’s Health System confirmed the decision to The Star on Tuesday night after word of the change began circulating among advocates for sexual assault victims.
Saint Luke’s has a significant presence across Kansas City, operating 16 hospitals and campuses across the region, in both Kansas and Missouri. In a statement, Saint Luke’s spokesperson Laurel Gifford said the health system continues to evaluate the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade and Missouri’s abortion ban, which went into effect following the decision.
(Excerpt) Read more at amp.kansascity.com ...
Isn’t Plan B the pill that induces menstruation and that is recommended to be taken the morning after? Or is that a different product?
You can count on bureaucrats to implement policies that they don’t like in the most destructive way possible to create as much societal unrest as possible. Those who do should be fired with loss of pension.
Has anyone figured out that it’s up to the state now?
If it’s illegal then it’s illegal and St. Luke’s can’t provide it.
any hospital using the name of a saint should not provide abortion.
How does that apply here.
“no longer providing emergency contraception”
Except “Plan B” is not “emergency contraception”, it is an abortifacient. Contraceptives prevent conception, but Plan B is designed to kill an already fertilized embryo by preventing implantation, not to prevent conception.
Plan B is supposed to prevent ovulation, it is a progestin (progesterone analog) surge. Since progesterone sustains the uterine lining, it should not cause menstruation or prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg.
This may be pure politics. Look, we can’t even help rape victims.
Number one, they need to change their NAME! Also, unless the provision to not pay if a state won’t allow abortions is in their written policies, I doubt refusing to cover Missouri providers is legal.
See reply 9.
(Sheepish grin) I didn’t read carefully enough. I stand by the name change idea, but I agree they legally cannot cover abortifacients.
Except the manufacturer of the drug admits that it in fact can do just that:
"Plan B One-Step is believed to act as an emergency contraceptive principally by preventing ovulation or fertilization (by altering tubal transport of sperm and/or ova). In addition, it may inhibit implantation (by altering the endometrium)." (emphasis added by me)
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2009/021998lbl.pdf
Except when they don't. A woman can become pregnant while taking the pill. An IUD is an abortifacient, preventing a fertilized egg from implanting.
Blocking implantation isn’t what most people think of when they think of an abortifacient.
Well, if life begins at conception, then something that prevents implantation is an abortifacient. Perhaps some people haven’t though that through fully, but those are the facts.
It is nonetheless distinctly different from active harm such as toxins or removal. Blastocysts regularly just keep on going.
“Blastocysts regularly just keep on going.”
And old people regularly fall down stairs accidentally. But it’s an entirely different matter if I push them down the stairs.
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