After EC again

Feministing:

Legislation proposed in Missouri would classify emergency contraception as an "abortion-inducing medication." Which, you know, it's not.

The bill also would protect pharmacies from lawsuits and from punishment by state regulators for refusing to sell or fill a prescription for any drug defined as triggering an abortion.

Opponents attacked the proposal as an unconstitutional restraint on reproductive freedom and an unconscionable affront to sexual assault victims. They said the bill would enshrine an inaccurate medical description in Missouri law, lead to increased numbers of abortions and leave millions of rural Missouri women without access to a safe and reliable form of birth control.

Pamela Sumners, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri said that filling prescriptions “is an essential function of your job...If you become a pharmacist, you should do your job."

And let's say it one more time: Emergency contraception is NOT abortion.

Sumners suggests contacting Representative Robert Wayne Cooper, the Health Care Policy committee chair and a doctor (so he should know better). Urge him to support sound science and women's legal right to birth control access.

For more information on the legislation, click here and here.