Sidra Zaidi is an M.A. candidate for Human Rights Studies at Columbia University in New York. She is passionate about women's reproductive rights and is committed to her work with the International Consortium on Emergency Contraception, where she is interning. ICEC is hosted by Family Care International. You can follow her on Twitter @Sidra_Zaidi.
Inaccurate arguments posed by anti-choicers against emergency contraception are not about the health and safety of women and girls: Rather, their claims about EC’s safety are proxies for moral disapproval of sex.
By all accounts, the women’s rights advocates who fought to reauthorize VAWA never made EC a priority.
The GOP platform committee did not amend language from the 2004 and 2008 GOP platforms, which “assert the sanctity of human life,” and provide no exceptions to abortion in any case whatsoever. The committee add language opposing drugs such as mifepristone, but members agreed that this platform amendment did not apply to EC.
