{"id":1572,"date":"2005-05-23T11:23:49","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T18:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/23\/no-emergency-contraception-for-rape-victims-but-plenty-of-viagra-for-rapists\/"},"modified":"2005-05-23T11:23:49","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T18:23:49","slug":"no-emergency-contraception-for-rape-victims-but-plenty-of-viagra-for-rapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"No emergency contraception for rape victims, but plenty of Viagra for rapists"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to this New York Times article<\/a>, male sex offenders such as rapists are gaining access to erectile dysfunction medication thanks to a loophole. A cruel joke to their victims, many of whom of rapes who don’t have widespread access to emergency contraception. The last thing these monsters need is a hard-on, due to their tendancies to use sex as a means of violence, power, and victimization.<\/p>\n

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Federal officials are scrambling to find a way to plug a legal loophole that allows convicted rapists and other high-risk sex offenders to receive erectile-dysfunction drugs paid for by Medicaid.<\/p>\n

The issue was revealed Sunday by the New York state comptroller’s office, which said audits covering the period of January 2000 to March 2005 found 198 sex offenders in New York received Medicaid-reimbursed Viagra after their convictions. Their crimes included offenses against children as young as 2 years old, Comptroller Alan Hevesi said.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

She said legislation may be needed to address the issue. New York’s two senators, Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton, both Democrats, said they would support such a bill. Schumer said he will sponsor the legislation.<\/p>\n

”Giving convicted sex offenders government-funded Viagra is like giving convicted murderers an assault rifle when they get out of jail,” Schumer said.<\/p>\n

Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee, said Monday he would try to end the ”perverse misuse of the taxpayers’ money” as part of the committee’s work to reform Medicaid.<\/p>\n

Kahn said taxpayer-funded Viagra for sex offenders was an unintended consequence of Medicaid law and an issue the federal government hadn’t known about before Hevesi’s report.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

”We are going to make every effort to see what the states or federal government can take to address this problem without harming people who have a legitimate need for this drug, such as men who had prostate cancer and diabetes,” Kahn said. ”We want to see what remedies there are to address this problem.”<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Hevesi’s study only covered Viagra, Hevesi spokesman David Neustadt said. State auditors are reviewing whether other prescription drugs for sexual dysfunction are being reimbursed by Medicaid for convicted sex offenders in the state, Neustadt said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well it’s nice to see the government is scrambling about something in order to protect potential sexual violence victims. So while convicted rapists can pop a Viagra whenever they want, their victims must put up with self-righteous anti-choice\/anti-contraceptive pharmacists and even hospitals and legislators, who continue to deny and restrict women’s reproductive rights, even if they’re rape victims. Viagra and all the constant preferential catering to men’s sexuality (and the continued medical and cultural disparaging of women’s sexuality) in the medical community and even government funding, is just another example of our culture’s “dicks before chicks<\/em>” mentality to put it bluntly. How many erectile dysfunction medicine commercials do we see on television in comparison to women’s contraceptive commercials? And how many men have been turned down by pharmacists for their Viagra prescriptions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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