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Hospitals in Peru will resume free distribution of morning-after pills

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Isabel Guerra

Peru's Health Minister Oscar Ugarte announced that public hospitals will resume distributing the morning-after pill, since international research requested by his department concludes that the pill is not a method of abortion.

The World Health Organization reports that the morning-after pill does not have an abortive effect, Ugarte said.

The minister informed that he has signed a resolution to authorize the free distribution of this pill in all public health facilities nationwide. The resolution will come into effect on Wednesday, March 10.

Ugarte pointed out that last October's Constitutional Court suspension of free distribution of the pill included the Health Ministry's responsibility to prove the pill does not act as a method of abortion, and the World Health Organization's report fulfills the court-ordered obligation.

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# John Rowe Wade says :
March 10, 2010 [ 11:49 ]

Interesting, so life begins at conception.  Wait till the "morning after", the new life that was conceived is killed and this is not an abortion?  I hope the Catholic church jumps all over this.  Might say that abortion is now legal in Peru.

# mericorps says :
March 10, 2010 [ 20:07 ]

I do not see how you feel you have the right to force a woman to breed myself.

# yetchewou megan jacques says :
March 11, 2010 [ 9:18 ]

 i   take  this  opportunity  to  thank  you  very  much   for  the  effort  that  you  do  at  peru.
so  i  see  that  you  make  very  much  and  i  want   you  say  thank  you  very  much  for  this  work.
so  i  see  him  is  very  good  for  and  me  also  at  togo  i want  that  we  do   as   you  do .

and  i  know  that   an  abortion   is  not good  to  do  .

so  i  will    that  you  help  me  and  me  also  at  togo  i  can  stand up   for  abortion. as  i  haven't  a  possibility  is  for  what  i  don't  know  what  i  can  do    for  him.

thank  you  very  much.

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