pharmacy access

Conscience clauses are becoming an increasingly popular mode of anti-choice legislation. While a bill in Louisiana represents a compromise position, bills pending in other states are more restrictive.

Youth Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Services in Pharmacies

Pharmacists in D.C. can and do refuse to provide women's health care based on such "personal views" as latent sexism, unsubstantiated medical opinion, or whim.

The thought of people refusing to serve a person of color due to their personal objection to desegregation is now considered indefensible, but refusal of service due to personal religious objections is not a thing of the past.

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Wisconsin's Family Planning Health Services put 20,000 emergency contraceptive pills in the hands of 10,000 women last year. Is preventing unwanted pregnancy as simple as that? Yes. And no.

When bigotry strikes women, the usual suspects don't object. William Saletan is only to happy to excuse pharmacists who would deny women emergency contraception.

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William Saletan thinks indulging extremists and inviting them to take charge of our health care is at worst a minor inconvenience for women.

There's a whole lot of inaccuracy wrapped up in the so-called pharmacy protection bill being considered in Missouri. The bill not only seeks to protect pharmacies from legal action resulting from the refusal to sell a drug they can't sell -- it also reclassifies emergency contraception as an abortifacient.

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