The state board that oversees pharmacies voted Tuesday to require Wal-Mart to stock emergency contraception pills at its Massachusetts pharmacies, a spokeswoman at the Department of Public Health said.
It's karma. Get cheap land for your superWalmarts, got to bow to the government.
Since to enterprise as a pharmacist requires having a state license, and since that license is granted by the state on certain conditions, "free enterprise" argument does not apply, and has not applied for quite a while.
This would be like demanding that the Muslim-owned corner store near you stock beer, or the Jewish-owned deli sell bacon.
But the pill is not prescribed, it's OTC, right?
This is a terrible blow to free enterprise, all for PC reasons.
It's amazing how people actually believe we still live in a free country. But it would be nice to see Wal-Mart pull out of the state and set up right outside the MA border.
Simple solution, stock 1 bottle, cost is $5000 a pill.
Contraception in mass? What the hell kind of church is that?
Always a gay time in Mitt Romneyland.
I sincerely doubt that Walmart was deliberately refusing to stock such items. Why make a big deal; because Liberals hate Walmart. But this reminds me of the case where either a pharmacist or a pharm tech in Wisconsin refused to fill prescription for a woman who wanted the morning after pill (Ithink it was the morning after pill). Personally I think it was over the top. I understand where someone could have pangs of conscience with doing this--but at the same a person has a right to have their prescription filled. To equate selling product/filling perscription with the act of actually taking such product or doing such act is an overstretch in my mind. But this Walmart case has nothing to do with WI case---but liberals will tie it in.
C'mon Walmart, take a stand.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Main Entry: med·i·cine
Pronunciation: 'me-d&-s&n, British usually 'med-s&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin medicina, from feminine of medicinus of a physician, from medicus
1 a : a substance or preparation used in treating disease b : something that affects well-being
2 a : the science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease b : the branch of medicine concerned with the nonsurgical treatment of disease
3 : a substance (as a drug or potion) used to treat something other than disease
4 : an object held in traditional American Indian belief to give control over natural or magical forces; also : magical power or a magical rite
The "morning after" pill is a medicine?
What can you expect from a city with a mayor named Lenino?
Oh... wait. That's Menino.
Never mind.
Atlas is shrugging.
And so much for businesses be able to do business according to the owner's moral standard.
Selling abortificants is a religious matter, not just a business one.
The state is not supposed to force someone, including a corporate entity, to act against their religious beliefs.
Massachusetts is one of the "blue" states most like western Europe in its thinking, and like western Europe, it seems to be doing everything it can to die out.
Romney, the "libertarian" did this. Libertarians in Mass. love forcing their amorality on the public by law. They hate Christians and so anything Christians don't want to do, is top on the Republican agenda for State force. The only way Romney could survive here is if he went along with them and he does, with gusto.
Headline is a lie. The "morning after" pill is not contraception.