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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)

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[archanglrobriel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty much totally punitive from my perspective.
It's not like the pharmacist is doing anything at all with regard to the woman having or getting an abortion, they're just refusing to supply her with the prescribed medicine that keeps her from dying of the after effects. So it's got nothing at all to do with their stance about "protecting the life of the fetus" and everything to do with punishing those they feel deserve punishing for their "sinful" ways.
The way these wingnuts are going, it's only a matter of time before some pharmacists start saying "Yeah, we've decided that since we're against homosexuality, we're not -morally comfortable- with filling these prescriptions for anti-HIV drugs anymore. Go off somewhere and die, you diseased sodomite."