Martha Coakley has hammered Scott Brown relentlessly with the claim that Brown wanted to permit hospitals to deny emergency contraception to rape victims. As Coakley surely knows, that claim is false.
I examined the language of Brown’s proposed amendment in a prior post. That amendment provided a “religious belief” exemption to the law requiring that hospitals provide such contraception, consistent with state anti-discrimination law. But Brown’s amendment also required that the hospital have a plan in place for the victim to get the emergency contraception from some other provider at no extra cost.
Coakley also is being disingenuous because, as I detailed in my prior post, Coakley supports the Senate health care bill which contains an even broader exemption protecting health care providers who do not want to provide abortion-related services or referrals for such services. That exemption is broad enough to include refusing to provide abortion-related services to rape victims.
Here is the language in section 1302(a)(3) of the bill (at page 125) passed by the Senate on December 24 (emphasis mine), which Coakley says she supports:
PROVIDER CONSCIENCE PROTECTIONS.—No individual health care provider or health care facility may be discriminated against because of a willingness or an unwillingness, if doing so is contrary to the religious or moral beliefs of the provider or facility, to provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.
Interestingly, Coakley must not have read the Senate health care bill, because in her controversial interview Ken Pittman from WBSM in Massachusetts yesterday, Coakley said the following:
Q. Would you pass a health care bill that had conscientious objector towards certain procedures including abortion?
A. I don’t believe that would be included in the health care bill, I don’t understand exactly what the question is.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ-ZeLSZPc8]
Coakley’s attacks on Brown show two things.
First, Coakley is willing to play politics with rape by twisting Brown’s position. Second, Coakley is ignorant as to what is in the Senate health care bill she supports.
Not a good combination.
Update: Here is the type of mailer being used by Coakley supporters (the Massachusetts Democratic Party) (original image here):
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She is beneath contempt.
Thank you for posting this! We have 4 Pro Brown videos posted on Common Cents!!
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That's an interesting ad the lefties are mailing out, the same women must have been raped alot because I see one girl's picture on there at least a dozen times haha
I agree with Fuzzy. Coakley is waging a one-woman war against the truth. And it is utterly contemptible.
That answer Coakley gave is a huge "tell." Read it again: "I don't believe [a conscientious objector provision applying to abortion] would be included in the health care bill, I don't understand exactly what the question is. " She knows that the QUESTIONER knows that the Senate bill she supports has just such a provision in it. Thus, she has been caught in a massively hypocritical lie. Realizing this, she quickly resorts to perjury-speak, claiming not to understand the question.
It's shameful this fraud is even licensed to practice law, let alone serve as attorney general.
The more information that I have found about those other cases, the more I find myself thinking the woman is despicable. Big Government has covered the child rape case. It seems that Coakley went all out against the lawyer in the case in a really nasty way, and on top of that she has now tried to put blame upon the child's mother, rather than on the perpetrator. It seems that Coakley did not want to prosecute the case because Winfield's father was a big donor to Coakley and the Democrats.
One thing I do understand is the Biblical concept of justice. The words that ring clearly in my mind are words from the prophets speaking out against the lack of justice that arose in Israel. This is what I am reading in those stories. Coakley lacks the embodiment of justice. She would make a good carpet bagger.