Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/"I couldn't imagine being a sexually active woman..."/reply

I thought I said rural, but I might have run out of space. Colorado is a perfect example of a anti/pro delemia within our own state.

In the "front range", (denver, Fort Collins, Boulder, etc) Abortion services, women's health care, science education, etc., are all important to us. But you go into the mountains, or the very eastern part of the state (farmland), and it's actually had to find ANY pharmacist, much less one who is pro choice. That said, we have only ever heard of one pharmacist who decided he would not dispense "the morning after pill", and he was promptly excused from his post.

We have a number of highly conservative, "pro-life", pro choice nurses and doctors in rural colorado. They are "pro life' in their own hearts and minds, but given the nature of rural medicine, they all accept that administering medical abortions (there is a rule that allows midwifes and nurse practitioners to administer RU-486, under a doctor's supervision, if they are X miles away from the nearest doctor- which is usually a winter thing up high in the western slope)  might be necessary.  Ie., "medical practice" and my patient come before my own morals/religion.

I would like to think this is the way most medical professionals think, and that it's just the lawyers and politicians who think otherwise. :-)