Although it has been several months since the Food and Drug Administration approved the prescription of Morning After Pills, a federal mandate has stirred controversy and ultimately lead to the resignation of two State Health Department nurses, Lenita Ackles and Linda Bell, from their posts.\n<\/p>\n
The federal government currently mandates that all agencies and clinics receiving federal funds distribute MAPs.<\/p>\n
MAPs are considered to be emergency contraceptives and are primarily used in the event of unprotected sexual intercourse, when a condom breaks or after a sexual assault.<\/p>\n
Pills are available by prescription. The pills induce a menstrual period within two weeks of taking the dosage. During the cycle, the pill flushes the egg, which may already be fertilized, and prevents implantation.<\/p>\n
Lenita Ackles, former Alabama Department of Public Health nursing supervisor for Calhoun, resigned on March 19 from her post after 13 years.<\/p>\n
Ackles said she was pressured into prescribing the pills.<\/p>\n
"I asked them what choices I had and they told me that I would either have to write up the other people who refused to prescribe the pills or be written up myself," Ackles said. "I didn’t want to be written up, so I resigned." Although it has been several months since the Food and Drug Administration approved the prescription of Morning After Pills, a federal mandate has stirred controversy and ultimately lead to the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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