WAC 246-320-286. Emergency contraception

The purpose of this section is to ensure that all hospitals with emergency rooms provide emergency contraception as a treatment option to any woman who seeks treatment as a result of a sexual assault. Every hospital that provides emergency care must: (1) Develop and implement policies and procedures regarding the provision of twenty-four-hour/seven-days per week emergency care to victims of sexual assault; (2) Provide the victim of sexual assault with medically and factually accurate and unbiased written and oral information about emergency contraception; (3) Orally inform each victim in a language she understands of her option to be provided emergency contraception at the hospital; and (4) Immediately provide emergency contraception, as defined in WAC 246-320-010 , to each victim of sexual assault if the victim requests it, and if the emergency contraception is not medically contraindicated.