 Brown voted for a state measure on patients ' rights that , among other provisions , requires emergency rooms to provide what is known as the morning @-@ after pill to rape victims to prevent an unwanted pregnancy from developing . In consideration of health care workers who might have a religious objection to administering this medication , Brown attached what became known as the Conscientious Objector amendment which would have exempted these workers , as well as religious hospitals , from being required to provide this medication . However , Brown 's amendment also required that all hospitals still had to provide a means for the patient to receive the medication , either by providing another healthcare worker willing to administer the medication , or , in the case of religious hospitals , to provide transportation to another facility , and in a timely manner . The amendment did not pass . Brown remains in favor of allowing religious hospitals to refuse to provide emergency contraception on moral or religious grounds , as he stated in the January 5 , 2010 candidate debate . 
