Posted on 11/08/2007 5:33:25 PM PST by llevrok
ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: November 8th, 2007 01:07 PM
A federal judge has suspended Washington’s requirement that pharmacists sell “morning-after” birth control pills. The injunction says pharmacists can refuse to sell the morning-after pill, referring a customer instead to a nearby source.
It’s part of a lawsuit by two pharmacists and a drugstore owner, who claim in a lawsuit that the state’s birth-control sales rules violated their civil rights.
The morning-after pill, sold as “Plan B,” can dramatically lower the risk of pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex. Some critics consider the pill tantamount to abortion, although it has no effect on women who are pregnant.
The state AND the (un)elected Governor ordered the pharmacy to sell the pill or lose their license.
This is one for the little guy and personal rights.
Good news from the courts (for a change)
Great ruling, although there is a legion of Freepers who believe Pharmacists are ethically obligated to assist in murder.
To me, the other legal precedent - that where one can say what is and isn't sold in their business - is as large.
I expect Senator Thompson won’t like this ruling.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
This is a surprise!
So you support the governor and the state forcing them to do so?
YO are either uninformed or intentionally lying -
Thompson has a 100% anti-abortion record - He has stated that he believes life begins at conception -
He ALSO says that the Federal Gov't needs to get out of the business of policing the whole country with one size fits all laws they have no Constitutional right to make...
Fred is a strict Federalist - you do know that the U.S. is not a democracy, don't you? It a Federal gov't...That means "States Rights" = that postulates that the people in any given separate state have the brains to decide for themselves what laws they want on the books...The Federal Gov't has FEW Constitutional rights over the states = like to protect us from foreign enemies , national highway system, - things we can't do for ourselves at the state level.
Do you think The bone heads in Washington are smarter than the people of your state?
You don't mind that Washington decides that you shall have a low-flush toilet (that has to be flushed twice to get the job done) even though you may live in the country, have your own well and septic and a high water table that is in an area that will never see a shortage...for just one example that has come down out of Washington...You like Big Daddy gov't taking care of you. saving you from decisions?
Hillary is your gal =
Outstanding! Chalk one up for the rule of law here in The People's Republic of Washington!
Huh?
I doubt any freeper even the pro-choice ones feel that way. If an owner of a business doesn’t want to sell distribute this drug at their private business than I think you will have a hard time finding a freeper who feels the government should force them (Well, maybe many of the liberal trolls who infest the smoking/nanny state threads but it’s hard to call them real freepers)
What I can say is in the opposite case, being that this drug is a legal product, if an owner of a pharmacy wants to sell it, the government has no right to force the owner to hire/keep employees that refuse to fill this prescription.
I have debated them a dozen times on this issue.
Why on earth would you say that?
Great ruling. Praise God!
BTTT
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”
Can’t force their religion on us - even if that religion is atheism.
Wrong, most freepers believe that if the owner wants to sell the drugs and his employees don't then the employee needs to look for a job somewhere else.
I have not seen one of them post that it was up to the government to order a private company to do spit.
Outstanding! And very surprising.
Federalism. Why is this federal judge sticking his nose in WA’s affairs?
I'm either uninformed or lying about what I expect? That's about the dumbest thing I've ever read on FR. And I've seen some pretty dumb thing.
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