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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 09:41 PM Aug 2016

Peru offers free morning-after pill to avoid unwanted pregnancies

Source: Xinhua

Peru offers free morning-after pill to avoid unwanted pregnancies

Source: Xinhua 2016-08-24 04:55:50

LIMA, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Peruvian government will distribute an oral contraceptive for free in all the country's hospitals to avoid unwanted pregnancies, Health Minister Patricia García confirmed Tuesday.

This decision comes after a recent court ruling which orders the Health Ministry to distribute the pill to women living in Peru's poorest areas.

Speaking during a visit to a hospital in Lima, Garcia said the government would respect the decision and make the pill available for free to all within 30 days.

The ruling by the First Constitutional Court of Lima means that many poor women will have access to the emergency contraceptive, which is predicted to improve their health and their families' quality of life.

Read more: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-08/24/c_135627989.htm

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niyad

(112,424 posts)
1. too bad that this country's gov't is not as enlightened. damn the religiously motivated woman-hating
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 09:48 PM
Aug 2016

gestational slavers.

Response to niyad (Reply #1)

progree

(10,864 posts)
3. I thought the ACA was supposed to make contraceptives, including emergency contraceptives
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 10:41 PM
Aug 2016

like Plan B and Ella, available for free (no out of pocket costs). But maybe it doesn't quite work out that way?

I realize in lots of states they do everything they can to make it difficult or impossible for women to access reproductive health care.

niyad

(112,424 posts)
4. of course it doesn't. think of all the religiously-minded pharmacists who refuse to do their jobs,
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 10:43 PM
Aug 2016

because of their "conscience". and if that is the only pharmacy in the area. . . .

niyad

(112,424 posts)
6. of course. meaning, that the reichwingfundynutjobs have the freedom to impose their insane views
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 11:47 AM
Aug 2016

on everyone else!!

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