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BOSTON (AP) - The state's health commissioner plans to allow Roman Catholic and other private hospitals to be exempt from a new law making the "morning-after" pill available to rape victims, a decision likely to trigger a legal challenge.
Public Health Commissioner Paul Cote Jr. said Tuesday the law doesn't supersede a previous one declaring private hospitals can't be forced to provide abortions or contraception.
"We feel very clearly that the two laws don't cancel each other out, and basically work in harmony with each other," Cote said.
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