Students protest Plan B restrictions
Waving signs advocating “compassionate care,” about 15 students gathered in front of St. Raphael’s Hospital in silent protest Friday to call on Catholic hospitals across the state to provide better care for rape victims.
Standing on Chapel Street in freezing temperatures, the students protested the refusal of Catholic hospitals such as St. Raphael’s to offer emergency contraception — commonly known as Plan B or the morning-after pill — to rape victims in the emergency room. Although hospitals can currently decline to offer emergency contraception on religious grounds, the state...
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