US pro choice action opportunity

[firecat]

(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

[gconnor.livejournal.com]

Some
pharmacists.. refuse
to hand back the prescription even after they refuse to fill it.

I hadn't heard that one but I guess I am not surprised. I wonder if calling the police would get them to give the person's property (the paper) back to them.

If outlawing abortion really were the will of the people, they would have done it already. They don't have enough support to amend the constitution, so they are left with not-so-ethical means to try and pursue their agenda. I just don't see what's so "moral" about trying to force one's beliefs onto another.

*sigh*

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Yes, there have been several such incidents. Refusing to return the prescription is illegal, and AFAIK in each of those cases the pharmacist has indeed been fired after the police were brought in.

This is the same kind of behavior that the President has been engaging in for 5 years -- "who cares if it's legal or not, I'm doing it anyhow and you can't stop me" -- so no one should be surprised that the attitude is trickling down.