[Sthitch]

Why should the government be the arbiter here? The free market is the best force. If a private pharmacist decides not to carry contraception that is his right and he will lose some business, if he loses enough he will cease to operate. Same for a doctor who does not want to deliver the baby of an unmarried woman. If it became known that the doctor was acting in such a way he or she would lose patients and most likely need to find a new line of work.

[MonaMars]

"Why should the government be the arbiter here?"

Read the article again.

"The policy does not require that all drugstores carry contraceptives; many don't, especially in Catholic hospitals.

But if the pharmacy has them, it must dispense them to anyone with a valid prescription — or risk suspension of its license"

There's nothing there that says a particular PHARMACIST must dispense birth control. It says PHARMACY, meaning the pharmacy, if it wants to accomodate the deranged religious beliefs of a particular pharmacist, is free to do so. They just have to have another pharmacist on hand to actually do the job for which he's being paid. The pharmacy remains the arbiter.

[goldstategop]

Liberals should just nationalize pharmacies! That's what they really want but they don't have the guts to come out and do it. So they push socialized medicine on us incrementally... Real brave of them.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)