There are times you wanna yell.

Enough!

Put petty interests aside and do right. Because the world can't take another tragedy. Alabama can't. Tuscaloosa can't. Our consciences can't.

We can't accept another Megan Rondini. Or we'll have to accept the blame.

Not just for what happened to her, but for what happens to others like her. For what's sure to happen to more and more women at the most vulnerable points of their lives.

Enough.

Rondini's the woman who said she was raped while a student at the University of Alabama. Her story appeared in Buzzfeed last week, a gripping tale of betrayal by all the institutions that were supposedly there to protect her.

The police failed her. The University failed her. DCH Regional Medical Center did not provide services she needed. In the end Megan took her own life. She killed herself. A community pushed her away when it should have pulled her close.

Megan Rondini (Facebook)

You can say rape happens everywhere, and it sadly does. You can say there are two sides to the story, and there always are. You can blame the women for what they wear, or how much they had to drink, or where they happen to be, but live with your own complicity if you do.

There must be change. For the women. For our souls.

But it has been hard to come by in Tuscaloosa.

Danielle Fincher, a young doctor who worked at DCH while in medical school, spent two years in Tuscaloosa pushing the hospital to institute a SANE (sexual assault nurse examiners) program, which treats victims with sensitivity and provides the resources they need. She was met with resistance she couldn't understand.

"The attitude was that if we don't talk about it, it doesn't exist," she said.

So she set out, through a University research project, to show how much it was needed. She collected data from 2010 to 2015, demonstrating, among other things, that only 6 percent of rape victims coming to the hospital in Tuscaloosa got the treatment recommended by the Centers for Disease Control. Just 22 women out of 400 got what they needed.

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She and other advocates came up with a plan for a non-profit to house the program and provide all the care for rape victims and all the paperwork that would follow. It, like several other proposals over the last several decades, was ignored. Promises were made, but nothing happened.

"It was not a priority because it's an ugly topic," Fincher said. "In my experience they were not interested in being helpful."

It didn't make sense because the SANE program helps hospitals and women. It is endorsed by the big medical organizations and the DOJ and is present, Fincher said, in the schools or cities of every other Southeastern Conference school.

But not Tuscaloosa. There wasn't enough interest.

Not until Megan Rondini.

Maybe.

Last week, after the pressure of bad national press and a speech about Megan on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, the University and DCH sat to talk about finally making it happen.

On Friday, in a joint press release, they said this:

"A community group that includes the University of Alabama, DCH Regional Medical Center, victim advocates, the Tuscaloosa District Attorney's office, and area law enforcement is working together to establish a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program and a Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) in Tuscaloosa County. Since last fall, the group has been working to implement the best model to have SANE-certified care for victims of sexual assault in the Tuscaloosa community. While this long-term solution is being implemented, DCH is training its staff in the SANE course curriculum."

Fincher remains skeptical. She will believe it when she sees it. There have been too many broken promises, and too little interest.

I hope she's wrong. Because it's past time to yell Enough!

It's time to do the right thing, to stop revictimizing women and start respecting them.

We'll hope for the best, and believe it when we finally see it.

John Archibald's column appears in The Birmingham News, the Huntsville Times, the Mobile Register and AL.com. Write him at jarchibald@al.com.