Where else in the world, except maybe the nations under the yoke of sharia, would hysterical religious cretins and their sycophantic politicians disrupt medical policy?
Yes, America of course.
The latest example of mouth-breathing winning over reason is the case of the Morning-After pill, a high dose of the active ingredients you find in a birth control pill designed to prevent fertilization and/or implantation. The Religious Right is busy trying to get the technology either banned, or difficult to obtain.