US pro choice action opportunity

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(The below is the text of a message I received from NARAL's pro choice action network)

It should be simple: a woman walks into a pharmacy with her
prescription and walks out with her medicine. Right?

If only it were that easy.

Rogue anti-choice pharmacists across the country are refusing to
fill safe, legal prescriptions for birth control. Some
pharmacists lecture women, humiliate them in public, and refuse
to hand back the prescription even after they refuse to fill it.
This is outrageous -- and it must be stopped.

I just took action with NARAL Pro-Choice America to stop
pharmacy refusals. Join me today! You can ask your members of
Congress to support legislation to ensure women have their
prescriptions filled -- click here:
http://prochoiceaction.org/campaign/98_griswold?rk=jp_1fvE1UmZmW

Comments

[penngwyn.livejournal.com]

If a pharmacy is not, for whatever reason, a *full service* pharmacy, they should post that fact where it can be clearly seen before entering the store -- and the location of the nearest one that is.

The only acceptable grounds for keeping an unfilled prescription, so far as I can see, is if there are reasons to believe that it is fraudulent. In which case, the cops should be called and either the customer charged (if warranted) or the prescription returned. (Too many false alarms, and the cops may begin to consider charging the pharmacist....)

I don't think pharmacists can be required to dispense everything to everyone, but I see nothing wrong with having them bear a very visible cost of choosing not to do so.