A Good Samaritan Hospital emergency room doctor refused to give a rape victim a morning-after pill because he said it was against his Mennonite religion. Rebuffed by the doctor, the woman called her gynecologist, who wrote the prescription. Her local pharmacy told her it was out of the drug and referred her to a sister store in Reading (Note - that is about a 30 minute drive, in the next county). The (doctor) ... said he sees nothing strange about asking a woman from eastern Lebanon County to drive to Reading for a drug. "People drive to Reading to buy jeans. Even if that were the case, that you had to drive to Reading to get this , to me that does not rise to a compulsion that you have to pass laws that have to do something," Dr. Joe Kearns said.

...The state backs up his refusal. Hospitals are not required to prescribe emergency contraception pills, and the state does not keep statistics on how many do, said Richard McGarvey, spokesman for the state Health Department. "There is a law that says if a hospital chooses not to provide a treatment for religious reasons, they can do that," McGarvey said.

...Jenny Murphy-Shifflet, executive director of the Sexual Assault Resource and Counseling Center of Lebanon County, has her focus on the victims. She said she has been trying for a year to get Good Samaritan Hospital to require its doctors to write prescriptions for emergency contraceptives. "No victim should have to run around town after an assault looking for emergency contraceptives," she said." ...The woman who reported the rape was emotionally unable to speak to a reporter yesterday, her father said."

As a woman I am simply outraged! this doctor may have his reasons for having a moral opposition to "the morning after pill" and I can respect that, but what I am outraged about and cannot respect is that he applied that belief over another woman's body and felt his moral belief was superior to hers and by doing this may have created risk factors for her that could have caused great physical harm as well as emotional. There are so many possibilities, lets say she became pregnant, what if there are complications with the pregnancy? what if they turn out to be cojoined twins, autisim, downs syndrom? etc. What about the emotional and physical suffering this woman is going through and will go through for nine months if she decides to keep the fetus? what about her rights, and the proclivities therein? This doctor by refusing the morning after pill may have forced her into an unecessary abortion? Lets assume for a minute she carries the fetus toterm and births the child there is always the risk of post partum depression. Men never think of these issues but then again men do not have to endure pregnacies. No woman especially a woman that is a victim of a brutal rape shold have to be a victim a second time because a doctor has a moral issue with the morning after pill simply refer it to another doctor but don't you dare compromise a woman's rights or jepeordize her health because of your moral issues!
Thats the way I see it, and as a woman I am outraged over this.