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Emergency Contraception for Sexual Assault Victims: An Advocacy Coalition Framework

Mavis N. Schorn, MS, CNM

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, TN, University of Kentucky College of Nursing, Lexington, KY

A bill was introduced into the Tennessee legislature in the 2005 session that would require emergency departments to offer and dispense emergency contraception to sexual assault survivors who are at risk of pregnancy. Several advocacy groups collaborated to form the Women’s Health Safety Network for the purpose of communicating as one voice. The advocacy coalition framework of policy development is applied to the political system and is used as a model to discuss issues impacting policy development for this particular bill. Key actors, proponents, and opponents to this bill are presented along with constraints to policy acceptance. The challenge for emergency contraception advocates on a state and national level is to keep the focus on public health science, the health and well-being of women, and out of the abortion debate.

Key Words: contraception • postcoital • family planning services • family planning policy • emergency contraception • pregnancy • unplanned • rape

Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, Vol. 6, No. 4, 343-353 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1527154405283410
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