An “opt-out” clause wasn’t enough to satisfy these pharmacists:
Pharmacists have sued Washington state over a new regulation that requires them to sell emergency contraception, also known as the “morning-after pill.”In a lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday, a pharmacy owner and two pharmacists say the rule that took effect Thursday violates their civil rights by forcing them into choosing between “their livelihoods and their deeply held religious and moral beliefs.”
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Well what an absolutely ridiculous argument.
It’s a like a Mormon bartender making the same argument. If they don’t like prescription contraceptives they ought to do another livelihood. It’s not like they didn’t know about their existence when they trained.
How many Christian Scientist doctors are there?
If these retards have a problem with Plan B, they just simply shouldn’t stock it.
“Sorry, we don’t have any in stock.”
It’s really not that hard. But these arguments are over-the-top.
This article might shake their “deeply held religious beliefs” a bit.
What they didn’t know when they trained was that the American people were on a trend of devaluing personal liberty so little as to put it beneath even convenience.
I think they should be free to not sell whatever they don’t want to sell, wether it is “deeply held religious beliefs” or a passing personal fancy is no one elses business.
A Mormon bartender is perfectly free to get a liquor liscense, hang up a sign that says “Bar” and sell only milk and ginger ale if he wants. The state doesn’t have the right to dictate to his that he must sell the products that it thinks he sould sell.
Come on people, lets have a little “land of the free” here.
Anon 5:52, well that Mormon bartender would not need a liquor license though, would he?
But the crux of what you say is that the US is devaluing human life. So let’s be very clear, do you think that it devalues life to sell birth control pills?
Because if you do, you are far out of the mainstream of US opinion.
Pharmacists aren’t bartenders. The state has a compelling interest to regulate that an adequate supply of specific medicines be available to patients.
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