| Only 22% of Wisconsin health plans cover all FDA approved prescription contraception, but more than 97% cover Viagra. |
| Advancing women's health by creating an environment in which the public and elected officials confidently support women's health policy. |
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|  | | Approximately 25,000 women in the US become pregnant each year as a result of rape. An estimated 22,000 of these unintended pregnancies—or 88%—could be prevented if rape victims had timely access to emergency contraception (EC).
Pregnancy prevention is considered by the American Medical Association a necessary component of treatment for women who have been sexually assaulted.
EC is a form of birth control that prevents pregnancy when taken within 120 of unprotected intercourse. Several studies have shown that hospitals are not consistently providing EC to rape victims in their emergency departments.
The Compassionate Care for Rape Victims Coalition (CCRV) was formed in 2004 to help improve services to rape victims and to determine whether or not EC was available to rape victims in Wisconsin. |
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| | | | Despite the new FDA decision allowing Plan B to be made available without a prescription for individuals 18 and older, the CCRV Coalition notes that emergency rooms should not presume that women will have access to Plan B at the pharmacy and still must improve access to EC at hospital emergency rooms. |
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| | | | From December 2005 to April 2006, the CCRV Coalition conducted a survey of EC in Wisconsin hospital emergency departments. The primary objective of this survey was to examine hospital emergency departments’ policies for providing information about and dispensing EC to rape victims. A CCRV Survey Highlight Report has been developed to outline the results of this survey. A more detailed report will be made available at a later date. |
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| | ATTN: Hospitals -- If your policy has changed since the survey was initially conducted, please help us update our findings and resubmit another copy of the survey. And please notify us if you are willing to allow CCRV to publicly acknowledge your sexual assault treatment protocol. |
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| | As a proud organizational member of the CCRV Coalition, the Wisconsin Alliance for Women's Health has offered to host the CCRV Survey information on this site. |
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