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Pro-Choice

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)

2. Long Island

Reply to PeaceNikki (Original post)

Tue Apr 23, 2013, 05:42 PM

Apr 2013

The only hospital in town was a Catholic Hospital. If a woman was raped in this town, the police automatically took her to a State Hospital 10 miles away. If she choose not to take the Morning After Pill after a rape, that was her choice, but if she wanted it, no Catholic Hospital would deny her that choice.

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