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[sophiaserpentia]

More evidence that the Chaliban's anti-choice movement is about punishing women for having sex instead of protecting life:

Cedar River Clinics, a women's health and abortion provider with facilities in Renton, Tacoma, and Yakima, filed a complaint with the Washington State Department of Health this week alleging three instances where pharmacists raising moral objections refused to fill prescriptions for Cedar River clients. The complaint includes one incident at the Swedish Medical Center outpatient pharmacy in Seattle. According to the complaint, someone at the Swedish pharmacy said she was "morally unable" to fill a Cedar River patient's prescription for abortion-related antibiotics. Cedar River's complaint quotes its Renton clinic manager's May 17, 2005, e-mail account: "Today, one of our clients asked us to call in her prescription... to Swedish outpatient pharmacy. [We] called the prescription in... and spoke with an efficient staff person who took down the prescription. A few minutes later, this pharmacy person called us back and told us she had found out who we were and she morally was unable to fill the prescription." (Cedar River thinks their client eventually got her prescription filled.)

from Bitter Pill: Women's Health Clinic Files Complaint Against Swedish Medical Center Pharmacy (emphasis added) (thanks to mom2boysbh for the link)

Comments

[alobar.livejournal.com]

I think it should be perfectly legal to beat the living crap out of phamacists who refuse to fill birth control perescriptions.

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

and then deny them wet wipes or band-aids for philosophical reasons.

[kumbunny.livejournal.com]

I agree. I prefer a drowning device that can be attached to the back of a hearse.

[c3fyn.livejournal.com]

Sign me up! We can start some kind of group analogous to the Guardian Angels...the Prophylactic Prophets?

And people look at me all funny when I talk of emigrating. I would honestly rather deal with sociopolitical chaos elsewhere in the civilized world than face what is obviously a tidal wave of fundamentalism here in the hinterlands.

[archanglrobriel.livejournal.com]

And to zap them with cattle prods!