They don't even HAVE to overturn Roe v. Wade

...women are already starting to be denied even basic information about their reproductive health options....even if they are raped.

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 omission of the so-called morning-after pill has frustrated and angered victims' advocates and medical professionals who have long worked to improve victims' care.



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.

Most Americans, even those opposed to abortion, favor some kind of exception in the event of rape. But not the Bush Administration....it's clear that they regard women who have been raped as being somehow complicit in the crime against them, and therefore they must be punished by being forced by the government to bear the offspring of the men who raped them.



There was a time when we complained that Republicans were trying to return us to the 1950's. It's worse than that; they're trying to return us to the Middle Ages.



Are you a reproductive-age woman? Do you have a daughter of reproductive age? Did you vote for George W. Bush? If so, you voted for this, you got it.