[lbo-talk] Birth Control

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Wed Nov 10 05:57:10 PST 2004



>
> http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-08-druggists-pill_x.htm
> ....
> 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.
> .....
> The American Pharmacists Association, with 50,000 members, has a policy
that says
> druggists can refuse to fill prescriptions if they object on moral
grounds, but they must
> make arrangements so a patient can still get the pills. Yet some
pharmacists have refused to
> hand the prescription to another druggist to fill.

Then a logical thing for Ms. Lacey to do is to vote with her feet and leave Jesusland for a state where her rights are more respected, like California, New York or Massachusetts.

In the current political climate the separation of church state means separation of North and South.

Wojtek



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