'Morning-after' pill focus of court case

“But the rule does say they have to order it if the customer asks them to.”

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An attorney representing a group of Madison County pharmacists hopes arguments presented Tuesday to the Illinois Supreme Court will end a state rule that requires pharmacies to dispense the so-called 'morning-after' pill.

The Madison County pharmacists were not part of the case that was before the high court. However, they filed their own lawsuit, which might lead to a rule that would allow individual pharmacists to avoid distributing the emergency contraception if they object on moral grounds. Read more

[Nomorlyes]

They are PHARMACIES, and the morning after pill is only available at pharmacies. Common sense would dictate that if you don't want to sell the pharmacological product at your pharmacy, you need to find a new line of work!

More sad attempts by the radical Christian extremists to impose their warped beliefs on everyone else.

[quandry]

If a second pharmcist is available to pass the respondsibility to everything is alright. But if the pharmacists is alone then they either fill the prescription or quit. They are not the one taking the prescription so to extend the responsibility for aborting a life on to themselves is taking things to far. Even if another person fills the prescription they are themselves violating their beliefs by passing the job on to someone else. Similarly just being present in the building where the pill is being dispensed is a violation of their belief. The only one with any guilt is the person who takes the pill. If they sold a hammer, knife or a peice of rope and the person used it to commit suicide because she was pregnate it would be the same thing in as selling the pill. The phamacist who cries out about it being against their religion is thaking too narrow of a view.