Trial over Plan B prescriptions begins Monday (Olympia, WA)

[uppityperson]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016875681_contraceptivetrial28.html
A four-year legal fight over who must provide morning-after contraceptives such as Plan B lands in a federal courtroom Monday, testing Washington state Pharmacy Board rules requiring pharmacies to dispense any medication for which there is a community demand.

At issue in the U.S. District Court trial is the right of the Ralph's Thriftway pharmacy in Olympia and two licensed Washington pharmacists — Margo Thelen and Rhonda Mesler — to refuse to stock or dispense a lawful medical treatment on grounds of religious conscience.
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The state Pharmacy Board has had a rule since 1967 requiring pharmacies to stock and provide medications in demand in their communities. Gov. Chris Gregoire and reproductive-rights groups favor the requirements, which have been amended since 2007 to let pharmacists withdraw if others can fill the order.

But Stormans, owner of Ralph's, also is objecting to stocking the medications. "All our family wants is the chance to keep doing what Ralph's Thriftway has aimed to do for four generations: to serve our customers in keeping with our deepest values," Stormans co-owner Kevin Stormans argued in a news release last week by The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in Washington, D.C....

[NMMNG]

1. Barf

"All our family wants is the chance to keep doing what Ralph's Thriftway has aimed to do for four generations: to serve our customers in keeping with our deepest values,"

Translation: "We want to push our beliefs on others, and you're persecuting us if you don't allow it."

[uppityperson]

2. And if they decide someone else doesn't fit their values? Withhold

diabetes Rx from overweight people because if they wouldn't pig out.....

Stop carrying.....


grrrrrrrrrr

[BlueToTheBone]

3. I saw a cartoon here on DU

and if I were a computer literate person I could post it here (if only I could find it!)...but basically it said:
Man :I don't need the government to regulate my healthcare! I need the government to regulate hers!"

[musette_sf]

4. Plan B has a long history

But seriously folks, let's take a look at some of those serious objections:

[Tesha]

5. Kick -- c'mon folks, put this on the "Greatest" list! (NT)

[uppityperson]

6. thank you