This article is a response to Target's decision to let its pharmacists refuse to fill your order for emergency contraceptive pills simply because they find your prescription immoral. Bear in mind that the legal drug known as "Plan B" is emergency contraception, not abortion. EC prevents conception —just like other contraceptives.What's next?
-Check out clerks who verify how fat you are before selling you that package of potato chips?
- Pharmacists who don't want to fill prescriptions for Jewish customers who killed Christ.
- Pharmacists who don't want to help customers who worship a 'Satanic counterfeit' (read: 'The Pope,' in fundie-speak).
- Pharmacists who only dispense HIV medicine to 'innocent victims' of AIDS.
- Pharmacists who want proof that women seeking emergency contraception were really raped, and that they didn't 'deserve it.'
- Pharmacists (or cashiers) who are Christian Scientists - can they refuse to sell any medicine, even aspirin, to anyone?
- Pharmacists who won't sell birth control pills to unmarried women, condoms to unmarried men, or any birth control at all because God doesn't want people spilling their seed.
- Can fundamentalist Christian employees refuse to interact with gay people in any way, shape or form since gays are sinners, abominations, biological errors, and very likely pedophiles?
And it's not only Target that's made this decision. It's also Rite-Aid, Walgreens, Wal-Mart and Winn Dixie. Could it happen here? I hope not.
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