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Erosion of Reproductive Rights

My sister-in-law pointed this out to me.  From the Desert Sun in Palm Springs, CA:

For a year, Julee Lacey stopped in a CVS pharmacy near her home in a Fort Worth suburb to get refills of her birth-control pills. Then one day last March, the pharmacist refused to fill Lacey's prescription because she did not believe in birth control.

"I was shocked," says Lacey, 33, who was not able to get her prescription until the next day and missed taking one of her pills. "Their job is not to regulate what people take or do. It's just to fill the prescription that was ordered by my physician."

Some pharmacists, however, disagree and refuse on moral grounds to fill prescriptions for contraceptives. And states from Rhode Island to Washington have proposed laws that would protect such decisions.


This actually reminds me of something that happened to my father back in the early 60s when my family moved back to the same little town in Massachusetts where my mother grew up.  He stopped at the local drug store to buy condoms and was told that they did not carry them as it was a family drugstore.  I assume my father found some other place to make his purchases (although I was born a few years later after a 9 year gap in kids... hmmm... I might be the result of this attitude!) and people encountering these pharmacists will find another pharmacy, but that is hardly the point.

One more reason to import drugs from Canada, I guess.

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