Hartford, Sep. 28, 2007 (CWNews.com) - After fighting against the passage of a new state law requiring hospitals to provide the "emergency contraceptive" Plan B pill to rape victims, the Catholic bishops of Connecticut have announced that Catholic hospitals will comply with the law when it goes into effect next week...Why are some so willing so kill an innocent child? This is a law which should be fought! The shepherds, like the hired hands, have run off in fear!
The bishops now say that ethicists are divided on the moral requirement for [administering an ovulation test first]. In their May letter to Governor Rell, they had argued that the requirement of an ovulation test was based on the "more probable teaching." The bishops now emphasize that the Church has not rendered a definitive judgment on that issue.
*** UPDATE ***
In reviewing previous posts on this, I see that in April of this year, the Connecticut Catholic Bishops were already gearing up for this:
The Connecticut Catholic Bishops claim to oppose this law, but stated in a letter that "Catholic hospitals provide emergency contraception to rape victims in the vast majority of cases. In fact, it is an extreme rarity when this medication would not be provided."And Thomas Peters has much more on this at American Papist here.
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