Wal-Mart ordered to carry 'morning-after' pill [great interview by conservative]

MSNBC ^ | 2/20/2006 | Tucker Carlson transcript

[XR7]

Should the government really be telling businesses what products they can stock on their shelves? That‘s debatable, but it is happening.

Wal-Mart was ordered this week by the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy to carry the morning after pill. It‘s an emergency contraceptive and a commercial one. The directive came after three women, backed by abortion rights groups, sued Wal-Mart to carry the pill in its Massachusetts stores.

Dr. Rebecca Guy is one of those women. Dr. Guy, along with her attorney Mr. Sam Perkins, joined Tucker Carlson to discuss the case.

CARLSON: Doctor, why should government be telling businesses what they can and cannot sell? Or why should anyone be forcing businesses to sell things they don‘t want to sell?

...You don‘t own Wal-Mart. I mean, you‘re not—right. You don‘t have a business relationship with Wal-Mart, I assume. Wal-Mart is owned by its stock holders. And so why shouldn‘t they get to decide what Wal-Mart sells? I guess I‘m missing this.

...But she can go somewhere else and buy it...How is it that you get to choose what a store sells? You could make the same argument about grocery stores. I need to eat to live, right? But I‘m not allowed to tell a grocery store what has to sell, and neither is government—yet.

[XR7]

But I‘m not allowed to tell a grocery store what has to sell, and neither is government—yet.

It's about time someone in the MSM asks some tough questions and holds the slimeball lawyers and pro-babykilling doctors accountable.
You gotta like this Carlson guy.
Too bad he probably won't last long at MSNBC - he's not PC enough.

[Huck]

I've come to view TC as the left's Alan Colmes. A lightweight pansy boy set up to be made the fool.

[zarf]

Any pharmacy that refuses to carry these should simply get out of the pharmacy business.

A pharmacy should make all legal products available to those with perscriptions, the gubmint should STFU.

This is a doctor/patient issue.

[Vaquero]

I would like to suggest to Walmart that they close the pharmacy's in the stores in that state. Just like they should close enough stores in Maryland to prevent the forced medical insurance laws there, and open more stores just over the border in other states.

[Steely Tom]

If only Norman Rockwell were alive today. He could paint a picture showing two burly federal marshalls escorting a package of pills into a Walmart. The package logo could consist of a pacifier with one of those red circles with the diagonal line thingys superimposed on it.

(steely)

[Richard Kimball]

The new definition of freedom. Freedom to force other people to do things they don't want to do. I should also point out that everything not prohibited is mandatory.

[Logical me]

If I was Wal-Mart I would fight this all the way to the SC if necessary. Mass. is the most communist State in the Union. Look at the a@@holes they elect as Senators, Kerry, and the swimmer Kennedy.

[XR7]

A pharmacy should make all legal products available to those with perscriptions

Says who?

[Logical me]

"This is a doctor/patient issue."

Then let the doctor carry it.

[HEY4QDEMS]

I‘d like to address that issue, because emergency contraception is just that. It‘s contraception that works not through an abortion fashion. It‘s often confused with RU-486

Only by lefties and morons. /redundant

[XR7]

"This is a doctor/patient issue."

Then let the doctor carry it.

Worth repeating.

[SheLion]

Should the government really be telling businesses what products they can stock on their shelves? That‘s debatable, but it is happening.

CARLSON: Doctor, why should government be telling businesses what they can and cannot sell? Or why should anyone be forcing businesses to sell things they don‘t want to sell?

Sound familiar??!!!

[Blueflag]

zarf - you've got it backwards.

CONSUMERS, get to choose providers who stock and sell merchandise at a price they like.

Walmart chooses not to sell certain magazines? Should they get out of the magazine selling business?

XXXXXX chooses not to sell furs. Should they get out of the coat business?

Lastly, talk to a pharmacist. Does their formulary stock and sell EVERY prescribable drug? Nope. Same is true for insurers and hospitals.

I don't see your argument as valid or sound, but that's my opinion.

[Muleteam1]

May I offer a correction? You said they elect as Senators, Kerry, and the swimmer Kennedy. Instead let's say, they elect as Senators, "I'm a Vietnam Vet" Kerry, and the swimmer Kennedy.

[zarf]

Between Bush's budget busting and fascist gubmint intrusion, conservatism is dead.

[dartuser]

I like the suggestion made by Limbaugh on Friday afternoon. WalMart will stock the pill, but charge $1000 for each dose.

[garv]

Several times over the past few years I've been unable to fill a prescription at my regular pharmacy because the product was out of stock. I've witnessed this happen to other customers a number of times as well. I've also had waiting times of several hours while the pharmacy either acquired the medication from another location or due to the volume of prescriptions to be filled.

Should I sue the pharmacy to make sure they have a sufficient quantity of all medications to fill any prescription at any time in a timely fashion or should I just STFU and go to another store that has the product like a normal human being?

[trubluolyguy]

I'll say this about the issue. The morning after pill? I have no particular problem with at this point. But I really think we have crossed a line when the government is telling a PRIVATE BUSINESS what it has to offer. I believe another poster on the same subject a couple days ago put it best.


"Ok, stock it" And charge $2,000 per pill.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Any pharmacy that refuses to carry these should simply get out of the pharmacy business.

They are selectively by refusing to sell some products.

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A pharmacy should make all legal products available to those with perscriptions, the gubmint should STFU.

But you support “gubmint” mandated sales...

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This is a doctor/patient issue.

Let their doctors sell it to them...