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Posted on 02/01/2006 1:06:42 PM PST by md2576
Boston, MA (LifeNews.com) -- Three Massachusetts women, with the backing of leading pro-abortion organizations, have filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart because the nation's top retailer does not carry the morning after pills, which can sometimes cause an abortion.
An attorney in the case did not have more details, including the names of the women who sued, but told the Boston Globe newspaper the lawsuit is based on long-standing pharmacy regulations in the state.
Responding to the lawsuit, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman, Sarah Clark, said the company doesn't carry the morning after pill for "business reasons." She declined to discuss those reasons but also told the Globe that the company has a policy to refer customers who want a product Wal-Mart doesn't carry to another retailer.
Clark also said that Wal-Mart stores in Massachusetts would stock the Plan B drugs if directed to do so by the Massachusetts Pharmacy Board or the state attorney general.
Currently, however, she told the Boston paper, "we know of no such requirement."
According to the lawsuit, the three women, with the help of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, NARAL's state affiliate, and a group that provides abortion funds for women, claim in the lawsuit that Wal-Mart is violating the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act because it doesn't carry the morning after pill.
The Globe reports that all of the major pharmacies in the state carry the Plan B pills but there is no legal requirement to do so.
The Massachusetts Pharmacy Board has not received any complaints about Wal-Mart not carrying the drug.
Last year the state legislature approved a measure allowing pharmacists to dispense the drug without a prescription and overrode a veto by Governor Mitt Romney.
This isn't the first time Wal-Mart has come under fire for not carrying the Plan B pills. NARAL and Planned Parenthood targeted Wal-mart last summer in a campaign to get it to sell the drugs.
Wal-Mart operates 44 pharmacies in Massachusetts and more than 3,700 nationwide.
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DISCUSSION ABOUT: "Massachusetts Women File Lawsuit Against Wal-Mart Over (Medicare) Plan B Drugs"
Pro-abortion interests sue Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart does not sell the "morning after pill".
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the three women, with the help of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, NARAL's state affiliate, and a group that provides abortion funds for women, claim in the lawsuit that Wal-Mart is violating the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act because it doesn't carry the morning after pill.
Hmm. Perhaps Wal-Mart is alleging their CHOICE to not carry the morning after/Plan B pills. Seeing how there is no LEGAL REQUIREMENT for them to stock the pills. I can't even get my pharmacy to carry my MS medication regularly. I should SUE THEM TOO! /sarcasm.
Too bad the morning after pill has no use other than killing a baby. If it treated some actual disease or other unnatural malady of the body, I could see their point. But, alas, all it treats is a very natural condition for which women were designed to be in, and which is not an illness.
These three gals are going to have a very hard time proving they have standing ~
You see this is why I could never be an attorney, judge or local branch manager of Walmart. My response to these vile poison pushers would be the equivalent of firing a rocket launcher at their boxes of legal briefs they'd bring into the courtroom.
I wonder how Wal-marts in Illinois are faring? In Illinois if they carry Federally designated contraceptives in their store, then they have to dispense the morning after pill, too.
Are we gonna sue walmart too because they don't carry every medicinal product in the world? A lot of them don't sell lots of things. It's becoming painfully obvious that these people worship death and the Bringer of it.
Another thing - if Walmart doesn't sell it, surely someone else does. I mean I feel like suing Walmart because I can't buy airplane parts. My local walmart can't sell paintball guns. So what?
That's silly. Our Walmart can't sell paintball guns, but can sell airsoft and BB guns, as well as all other real hunting rifles. They also can't sell handguns. So why is there a problem refusing one kind of medication? They sell prescription parasite medication, for example, but not the over the counter stuff.
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Suing a private actor for choosing what products to sell.
Amazing.
Next the will sue to force McDonalds to sell tofu.
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