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Some Democratic state lawmakers say they will once again try to pass a bill that would require hospital emergency rooms to offer sexual assault victims treatment to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. The bill has languished in the legislature during the last six years, but Sen. Nina Turner says lawmakers have been interested in anti abortion measures lately so this bill should be appealing.
Turner says a 2007 survey of emergency rooms shows 20% of Ohio hospitals do not guarantee access to emergency contraception after a woman has been sexually assaulted. She says her bill would not require the patient to submit to any treatment and would only require that hospitals give patients the options. |
