AMENDMENT(S) REJECTED BY THE HOUSE

DEL. MARSHALL

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13. In order to avoid violating a woman's deeply held moral beliefs, the Board of Medicine shall require all women who receive or who are prescribed post intercourse synthetic ovarian hormones, to be informed that post intercourse synthetic ovarian hormones, also known as "emergency contraception" in part achieve their anti-fertility effect by causing an early abortion because according to:

An excerpt from The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 6th Edition, by Moore and Persaud (P. 532):

Postcoital birth control pills...Ovarian hormones (estrogen) taken in large doses within 72 hours after sexual intercourse usually prevent implantation of the blastocyst, probably by altering tubal motility, interfering with corpus luteum function, or causing abnormal changes in the endometrium. These hormones prevent implantation, not fertilization. Consequently, they should not be called contraceptive pills. Conception occurs but the blastocyst does not implant. It would be more appropriate to call them "contraimplantation pills." Because the term abortion refers to a premature stoppage of a pregnancy, the term abortion could be applied to such an early termination of pregnancy.

DEL. MARSHALL

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13. No licensed physician, nurse practitioner with prescriptive authority, physician's assistant or pharmacist may be authorized by the Board of Medicine to provide, prescribe or dispense post intercourse synthetic ovarian hormones, also known as "emergency contraception," to any minor referred for emergency contraception by a school nurse or employee of any school division.

DEL. MARSHALL

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However, no prescriber or licensed pharmacist shall be required to dispense so-called emergency contraceptives if he objects on personal, ethical, moral or religious grounds. In addition, any prescriber or licensed pharmacist who shall state in writing an objection to dispensing so-called emergency contraceptives on personal, ethical, moral or religious grounds shall not be required to dispense so-called emergency contraceptives, and the refusal of such prescriber or licensed pharmacist to dispense so-called emergency contraceptives shall not form the basis of any claim for damages on account of such refusal or for any disciplinary or recriminatory action against such prescriber or licensed pharmacist, nor shall any such prescriber or licensed pharmacist be denied employment because of such objection or refusal. The written objection shall remain in effect until such prescriber or licensed pharmacist shall revoke it in writing.