Pharmacy Refusals 101

[Novara]

Pharmacy Refusals 101


This is a detailed list of everything you need to know when a pharmacy refuses to fill your prescription - where the laws protect you and what to do if you are refused.

There's a pdf version in the link: http://www.nwlc.org/resource/pharmacy-refusals-101

[longship]

1. The bottom line.

From linked article:

How to Respond to a Refusal in the Pharmacy

* File a complaint with your state’s pharmacy board to get sanctions against the pharmacist or pharmacy.
* Communicate your story to the press.
* Ask the state pharmacy board or legislature to put in place policies that will ensure every consumer’s right to access legal pharmaceuticals..
* Alert the pharmacy’s corporate headquarters; many of the major pharmacy chains have policies that protect women’s right to receive contraception in store, without discrimination or delay.
* Get EC today, before you need it!

If you have had trouble getting your prescription for EC or birth control pills filled or getting
non-prescription EC, please contact the National Women’s Law Center at 1-866-PILL-4-US or [e-mail].

R&K

BTW, the GOP is not just against abortion rights, they are also wholly against contraception rights. As we all know.

[niyad]

2. the trouble is, almost everything in that list of what one should do takes time, time the woman

does not have.

THIS was the only immediately usable suggestion:

Get EC today, before you need it!

[Novara]

3. I agree

It's the same thing with striking down all of the unconstitutional abortion bans that the red states are passing - we're always playing catch-up. Yes, they're almost universally struck down in court, but it takes time and money. In the meantime, women suffer.

Sadly, the only way to preemptively prevent this shit is for the SCOTUS to expand abortion rights on the basis of a woman's right to privacy and her ultimate right to her own body, and I doubt this current SCOTUS will do that. However, if RGB retires or passes away, we'll never get anyone as liberal as she is and no future SCOTUS could possibly get there. Unfortunately, our only chance is now, and I'm not confident it's even a good chance.

All of this "religious conscience" shit needs to go away permanently. You should only be allowed a "religious conscience" in your private life, never in commerce or public life. And I put that in quotes because it usually is only an excuse to discriminate. After all, how in hell do you prove someone has "closely held beliefs"??

Grrrrrrrrrrr!