I hope it doesn’t. And I hope EC-for-rape victims isn’t the issue that anyone has to fall on his sword for. But — I’m not disagreeing with Ramesh, I’m just highlighting an underreported issue — Martha Coakley’s statement on the radio last week wasn’t about how EC works. It was about how consciences don’t belong in the emergency room. It seems to me that St. Elizabeth’s on Cambridge should be able to not dispense contraception — not just abortifacients — if by doing so it violates its mission. What she said on the radio was disturbing and far-reaching. And, Heaven knows, I’ve said things I don’t mean to say on the radio. But what she said actually exists in legislation moving around Washington.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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