The issue of pharmacists across America refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills has been around for a little bit. But now, it's getting a little more attention as more and more pharmacists are refusing.
One of the pharmacists leading the charge is Karen L. Brauer, president of Pharmacists for Life — yet another convoluted name for a group. "Love the fetus, hate the child" as Randi Rhodes sarcastically says almost every day.
An increasing number of clashes are occurring in drugstores across the country. Pharmacists often risk dismissal or other disciplinary action to stand up for their beliefs, while shaken teenage girls and women desperately call their doctors, frequently late at night, after being turned away by sometimes-lecturing men and women in white coats.
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Supporters of pharmacists' rights see the trend as a welcome expression of personal belief. Women's groups see it as a major threat to reproductive rights and one of the latest manifestations of the religious right's growing political reach -- this time into the neighborhood pharmacy.
I am fortunate to live in Philadelphia, not only a liberal city with a real culture of life, but with hundreds of pharmacies; five within five blocks from my house. But what about all of those who are not as fortunate? Those living in smaller towns in rural areas where 72 hours between unprotected sex [whether accidental or not] and ingesting the pill may not be enough to find a pharmacist who will prescribe the pill. What happens when that child is born?
Lady wrote a very good essay on the "culture of life" this administration has taken on. Take a read.
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