“Part of their (women’s) identity is the potential to be a mother. They are being asked to suppress and radically contradict part of their own identity, and if that wasn’t bad enough, they are being asked to poison their bodies.”

—Dr. Dominic Pedulla, an OKC cardiologist, to the Tulsa World. State Sen.

Clark Jolley, R-Edmond, said Pedulla requested Jolley introduce a bill that would let businesses opt out of health insurance policies that provide coverage of emergency contraception.

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