 One week before the January special election , a controversy arose over a Coakley approved television ad . The ad referenced the conscientious objector amendment Brown had sponsored for inclusion in a 2005 proposed state measure on patients ' rights . This amendment would have allowed individual healthcare workers and hospitals to refuse to provide emergency contraceptive care ( the morning @-@ after pill ) to rape victims if they objected due to a religious belief . After the amendment failed , Brown did vote for the main bill which , along with other patient rights , requires healthcare workers and hospitals to provide such care . Coakley 's ad featured a male voice that said , " Brown even favors letting hospitals deny emergency contraception to rape victims , " over the ad 's graphic which had the words , " Deny care to rape victims . " Brown 's daughter Ayla called the Coakley ad " completely inaccurate and misleading " , and stated that her father would never deny care to a rape victim . Brown criticized Coakley for running what he described as attack ads . 
