Ill. Druggists Must Dispense Birth Control

AP ^ | 4/1/05 | MAURA KELLY LANNAN

[traderrob6]

CHICAGO - Gov. Rod Blagojevich approved an emergency rule Friday requiring pharmacies to fill birth control prescriptions quickly after a Chicago pharmacist refused to fill an order because of moral opposition to the drug.

The emergency rule takes effect immediately for 150 days while the administration seeks a permanent rule.

Our regulation says that if a woman goes to a pharmacy with a prescription for birth control, the pharmacy or the pharmacist is not allowed to discriminate or to choose who he sells it to," Blagojevich said. "No delays. No hassles. No lectures."

Under the new rule, if a pharmacist does not fill the prescription because of a moral objection, another pharmacist must be available to fill it without delay.

[Revel]

Anyone notice how they mix the terms?

[FormerACLUmember]

You are quite the totalitarian.

[JLS]

So what.
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That is controlled as in controlled by the government. If you sell things the government controls, then you follow the government rules.

There examples you gave like vegan place selling meat. Well meat is not a controlled substance. There are health regulations but the government does not tell them who they can or can not sell to like a pharmacy. It is just hypocritical for a pharmacy to complain about government interference when its whole existence depends on government intervention.

[GSlob]

Pharmacist needs a license to be a pharmacist. And the license (state license, mind you) could be pulled. The right to pursue a licenseable activity is not a right properly speaking, but a privilege [just like the wearing of the military or police uniform of a country is a privilege], and is granted on condition of acceptable to the licensing authority behavior, and thus it can be withdrawn. There is no right for a non-violent person to the employment as a butcher if such a person conscientiously objects to some of the butcher's activities. Let such a one go and become a baker or a tailor.

[Revel]

What a waste of time it is to actually do any research around hear anymore. It is not like the old days. No one cares what the facts are. I give up. Kay sirah Kay sirah

[GenXFreedomFighter]

That Chicago Tribune article reads like a Planned Parenthood pamphlet! The MSM should be ashamed of themselves!

[Paleo Conservative]

Gov. Rod Blagojevich approved an emergency rule

They needed an emergency law for this?

Not a new law, a rule. He's ruling by decree, not getting a law passed by the legislature.

Stroke of the Pen. Law of the land. Kinda Cool.

Paul Begala
Top White House Advisor

[elli1]

Let them. I'd choose another pharmacist.

How many pharmacies are there in the town where you live?

The town in which I grew up had/ has only one RX and one pharmacist.

[Mike Darancette]

pharmacy or the pharmacist is not allowed to discriminate or to choose who he sells it to," Blagojevich said. "No delays. No hassles. No lectures."

Just charge a lot of money for it.

[ndkos]

I will always try to do what is right, no matter if people call me "fringe" or worse. The pro-life movement will not win by compromising on human life.

[Lurker]

Professor Williams is a personal hero of mine. Thanks for the post.

This 'rule' ordered by my States governor is absolutely repugnant.

L

[Paul C. Jesup]

It's not "birth control" (which prevents ovulation), it's abortion in pill form. But then the liberal/socialist press never does tell the truth.

[ndkos]

This strikes me personally as my sister will be entering college next year studying to be a pharmacist. And unfortunately we live in Illinois. I also have an aunt who is a pharmacist in IL.

For Blago to be so strongly against my religion (I'm Catholic) and to try to make life so difficult for my family members absolutely disgusts me.

[Chiapet]

"For anyone who does not know it. Emergency contraception is either RU-486 or something called "Plan B". Which I assume is the same basic thing."

Actually they're not precisely the same thing. RU-486 is definitely an abortifacient. Plan B is a mega dose of regular birth control pills. Doctors prescribe it in instances where the regular birth control (like condoms) failed for some reason or another. Plan B is for women who are not already on birth control pills, and it acts in two ways. First, it suppresses ovulation if it hasn't already occurred. Second, if ovulation has occurred, it affects the lining of the uterus so that an egg will not implant.

[GenXFreedomFighter]

So go to the next town if that's the case. I think it unlikely that a pharmacist with such objections would remain long as the only game in town if people found him objectionable. Let the free market rule.

[briant]

It is just hypocritical for a pharmacy to complain about government interference when its whole existence depends on government intervention.

If there were no government at all there would be pharmacies there always have been under different guises. Someone will see a product the people want. The irony here is that the government precludes people from freely buying a product and then sets demands on the sellers that are, in their eyes. immoral. The people you want to control everything from whether you can get drug x to whether you have to sell that drug are the problem.

[briant]

The people you want to control everything from whether you can get drug x to whether you have to sell that drug are the problem.

correction:
The people WHO want to...

[elli1]

You didn't say how many pharmacies are in the town where you live.

[GenXFreedomFighter]

There are many. But, like you, I grew up in a small town with one drugstore. So what?

[GenXFreedomFighter]

Most people in that town nowadays go to the Wal-Mart a few miles down the road for ... well, everything.