Originally published December 27 2005
Massachusetts governor overrides plans to exempt Catholic hospitals from emergency contraception
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Overriding the decision of the state public health commissioner, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has decided that Catholic and private hospitals must comply with a law that requires hospitals to offer emergency contraception to rape victims.
Mitt Romney has abandoned plans to exempt Catholic and other private hospitals from a law requiring them to offer the morning-after pill to rape victims.
Romney had initially backed regulations proposed by his public health commissioner, who said the new law conflicts with an older law barring the state from forcing private hospitals to dispense contraceptive devices or information.
The Republican governor said his legal advisers told him that the new law supersedes the old law and that all hospitals should be required to offer the morning-after pill, although many Catholics and other Christians consider it to be a form of abortion.
The law, which takes effect next Wednesday, was passed by the Legislature over Romney's veto.
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