[NYer]

Catholic Ping - Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list

[orionblamblam]

The store has the right to not carry the stuff. Customers have the right to shop elsewhere in protest. The American way wins.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Who would have thought pharmacy was going to be made an immoral business by government fiat in more and more places? Sounds like the governor here would like Washington to join that number...

[hardworking]

Aw-w-w-w just tell them you're afraid some nice Muslim baby will be aborted and they'll back off.

[goldstategop]

Liberals want to force a business to carry a product for ideological reasons. It has nothing to do with protecting a woman's health. What it is about is making sure no one infringes on the liberal holy writ - abortion.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[Liz]

FREEPER ACTIVISM

EMAIL news@theolympian.com
Boycott brews over grocer's Plan B stand
By BRAD SHANNON, The Olympian

Brad Shannon in The Olympian reports that Ralph's Thriftway, which has a pharmacy in its east-side location, says flatly they won't stock the Plan B morning-after pill on moral grounds. Mr Shannon reports: "I don't want to get into a detailed debate,"one of the co-owners of Ralph's and Bayview Thriftways, Kevin Stormans, said in an interview Tuesday. "I just think people have to choose when they believe life begins. There are questions about this drug on that issue." --SNIP--

FULL STORY http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:8AWBzZ4nuLsJ:www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20060621/NEWS/606210310



To express support to Stormans, Inc.:
Phone: 360-754-2203
Email: kevin@stormans.com

[AKA Elena]

“Many women are feeling intimidated when they ask for emergency contraception, so being turned away or being told to go someplace else can further traumatize someone,”

Perhaps someone who believes in the "sanctity" of a woman's right to choose death over life, can explain why these same women would ever resort to some justification or "right" to such products, through legal writ ... in order to punish those who support life and refuse to serve murder drugs.

It seems to me that all of this implies the real and natural feelings of intimidation and trauma which actually can and do overwhelm those women seeking these death bearing products.

I believe it is a good thing that this is the reaction of those customers, if it is true.

[SuziQ]

I hope it will turn out to be like the NOW boycott of Florida Orange juice several years ago. The sales of OJ went through the roof!

[little jeremiah]

Looks good - and there's contact info to support the good guys.

[kcvl]

Blanding also said she plans to file a complaint with the Washington State Board of Pharmacy, which regulates pharmacies and pharmacists in the state.

She said she believes Ralph's policy violates state law, which says that a "pharmacy must maintain at all times a representative assortment of drugs in order to meet the pharmaceutical needs of its patients."

"I think we will see hundreds of people and have quite an impact," Linda Malanchuk-Finnan, president of the South Sound chapter of National Organization of Women, said of the boycott, which NOW supports.

"I think people are shocked to find that (emergency contraception) is something they don't have and don't carry. I think people will be quite shocked. I'd like to see them continue to be the good community partner we thought they were in the past."


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The issue over stocking Plan B is an outgrowth of another debate already raging at the Board of Pharmacy.

A draft rule goes before the board Aug. 31 that could let individual pharmacists refuse to provide a medication - such as Plan B - for reasons of conscience, but only if they made sure another pharmacist could fill it.

Gov. Chris Gregoire has said she might introduce her own rule for consideration and the pro-choice Democrat has warned that she might appoint new members to the pharmacy board next year if the board approves a rule interfering with consumer access to medications.


SINCE WHEN IS IT THE GOVERNOR'S BUSINESS WHAT A STORE CARRIES?!!! Get your nose out of the PRIVATE BUSINESS!!!

[pollyannaish]

State Governor Chris Gregoire opposes the rule and has threatened she will replace board members if they approve it.

What Christine, matters of conscience don't matter to you? This is really a travesty. She is really a travesty.

[Sun]

"..pharmacists refer requests for the drug to one of the locations that carry it.."

This also is troubling, that a pro-life pharmacist has to refer a woman to another pharmacy, and inform them how to kill their baby.

If I were a pharmacist, I would feel pretty guilty in letting a woman know how she could kill her baby.

I don't blame the pharmacist too much, but a law forcing the pharmacist to do this, is demonic.

[Liz]

FREEPER ACTIVISM

EMAIL news@theolympian.com
Boycott brews over grocer's Plan B stand
By BRAD SHANNON, The Olympian

Brad Shannon in The Olympian reports that Ralph's Thriftway, which has a pharmacy in its east-side location, says flatly they won't stock the Plan B morning-after pill on moral grounds. Mr Shannon reports: "I don't want to get into a detailed debate,"one of the co-owners of Ralph's and Bayview Thriftways, Kevin Stormans, said in an interview Tuesday. "I just think people have to choose when they believe life begins. There are questions about this drug on that issue." --SNIP--

FULL STORY http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:8AWBzZ4nuLsJ:www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20060621/NEWS/606210310



To express support to Stormans, Inc.:
Phone: 360-754-2203
Email: kevin@stormans.com

[ThomasThomas]

Where were these protesters when Whole Foods Market decided to stopped selling live Lobsters.

[epow]

Thanks for the heads up NYer. I used your link to email the store thanking the owner for having the moral courage to stand up for the sanctity of human life by refusing to distribute the abortifacient drug, even though it will probably cost him financially. I have to believe that the owner will be rewarded for his stand by an increase in patronage from others in that area who believe as he does that will more than compensate for the losses he may suffer from the boycott. He deserves our thanks and our prayers.

[Lexinom]

This is a very liberal community. I think enough people care enough about women’s rights to boycott a store that is doing something like this.

I thought liberals were for open-mindedness and free-expression. Apparently not, if the individual wants no part as accomplice to executing an innocent person for the "crime" of daring to exist consequent to another's actions.

[Lexinom]

“Many women are feeling intimidated when they ask for emergency contraception, so being turned away or being told to go someplace else can further traumatize someone,” [Allen] said.

Hello?! What's the trauma to the baby? Which is worse, being embarrassed or being poisoned?

Oh, silly me... I forgot... It's not a baby, is a mass of cells!

[Lexinom]

“Many women are feeling intimidated when they ask for emergency contraception, so being turned away or being told to go someplace else can further traumatize someone,” [Allen] said.

Hello?! What's the trauma to the baby? Which is worse, being embarrassed or being poisoned?

Oh, silly me... I forgot... It's not a baby, is a mass of cells!

[4woodenboats]

"The Board of Pharmacy is set to decide on a draft rule in August that would ensure individual pharmacists remain free to refuse to provide medication for reasons of conscience, so long as they refer requests to another pharmacist."

"State Governor Chris Gregoire opposes the rule and has threatened she will replace board members if they approve it. "

Big fat goosestepping brownshirt totalitarian bitch second story here guys

[gondramB]

>>“Many women are feeling intimidated when they ask for emergency contraception, so being turned away or being told to go someplace else can further traumatize someone,” she said.<<

I've been to a pharmacy before and been told they didn't have that particular prescription but the pharmacy down the street carried it - I was irritated but not traumatized.