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Harm or Mere Inconvenience? Denying Women Emergency Contraception
Hypatia
  • Carolyn McLeod, Western University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2010
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01082.x
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Abstract

This paper addresses the likely impact on women of being denied emergency contraception (EC) by pharmacists who conscientiously refuse to provide it. A common view-defended by Elizabeth Fenton and Loren Lomasky, among others-is that these refusals inconvenience rather than harm women so long as the women can easily get EC somewhere else close by. I argue from a feminist perspective that the refusals harm women even when they can easily get EC somewhere else close by.

Citation Information
Carolyn McLeod. "Harm or Mere Inconvenience? Denying Women Emergency Contraception" Hypatia Vol. 25 Iss. 1 (2010) p. 11 - 30
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/carolyn-mcleod/23/