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Wal-Mart ordered to carry 'morning-after' pill [great interview by conservative]
MSNBC ^ | 2/20/2006 | Tucker Carlson transcript

Posted on 02/20/2006 7:59:43 AM PST by XR7

Should the government really be telling businesses what products they can stock on their shelves? That‘s debatable, but it is happening.

Wal-Mart was ordered this week by the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy to carry the morning after pill. It‘s an emergency contraceptive and a commercial one. The directive came after three women, backed by abortion rights groups, sued Wal-Mart to carry the pill in its Massachusetts stores.

Dr. Rebecca Guy is one of those women. Dr. Guy, along with her attorney Mr. Sam Perkins, joined Tucker Carlson to discuss the case.

CARLSON: Doctor, why should government be telling businesses what they can and cannot sell? Or why should anyone be forcing businesses to sell things they don‘t want to sell?

...You don‘t own Wal-Mart. I mean, you‘re not—right. You don‘t have a business relationship with Wal-Mart, I assume. Wal-Mart is owned by its stock holders. And so why shouldn‘t they get to decide what Wal-Mart sells? I guess I‘m missing this.

...But she can go somewhere else and buy it...How is it that you get to choose what a store sells? You could make the same argument about grocery stores. I need to eat to live, right? But I‘m not allowed to tell a grocery store what has to sell, and neither is government—yet.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortofacients; babykillers; babykilling; chooselife; feminazis; moralabsolutes; morningafterpill; nags; naral; now; pharmacy; radicalfeminism; radicalfeminists; retail; ru476; ru486; walmart
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To: zarf

Dude, can you stay on topic?

Besides, this is more about libertarian and fascism issues, and very little about conservative issues.

Does the government have the right to dictate what a store stocks and sells?

It certainly has the right to RESTRICT sales. But does it have the right to ENFORCE sales?


21 posted on 02/20/2006 8:18:13 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitor)
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To: zarf
Any pharmacy that refuses to carry these should simply get out of the pharmacy business.

Any consumer who wants this should go somewhere where it's available.

A pharmacy should make all legal products available to those with perscriptions,

A pharmacy should make available those products it chooses to make available.

the gubmint should STFU.

Agree.

This is a doctor/patient issue.

Then let the doctor fill the prescription.

22 posted on 02/20/2006 8:18:49 AM PST by IronJack
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To: zarf

Between Bush's budget busting and fascist gubmint intrusion, conservatism is dead.




This wasn't Bush, this was the commies in Massachusetts.


23 posted on 02/20/2006 8:19:33 AM PST by trubluolyguy (Islam, Religion of Peace and they'll kill you to prove it.)
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To: zarf

We don't want to see the morning after pill and the RU486 being sold by illegal drug dealers. Far better to obtain them legally, under a doctor's care.


24 posted on 02/20/2006 8:19:44 AM PST by tkathy (Ban the headscarf (http://bloodlesslinchpinsofislamicterrorism.blogspot.com))
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To: Richard Kimball
everything not prohibited is mandatory

This is the underlying philosophy of the post-bourgeios, permanantly adolescent culture that is being built for us.

25 posted on 02/20/2006 8:21:17 AM PST by oblomov (Join the FR Folding@Home Team (#36120) keyword: folding@home)
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To: XR7

Somebody correct me if I got this wrong. As I understood it, Walmart itself didn't make the decision about whether to carry or not to carry this particular drug. I understood that the decision was left up to individual pharmecists at each Walmart store so it was inconsistent on whether a particular Walmart would or would not carry the drug.


26 posted on 02/20/2006 8:22:41 AM PST by rhombus
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To: tkathy
We don't want to see the morning after pill and the RU486 being sold by illegal drug dealers. Far better to obtain them legally, under a doctor's care.

Then let the doctors sell them.

27 posted on 02/20/2006 8:23:40 AM PST by XR7
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To: Blueflag
It certainly has the right to RESTRICT sales. But does it have the right to ENFORCE sales?

By giving the government the power to do the former, you give it the power to do the latter.

28 posted on 02/20/2006 8:23:51 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: SheLion; Mrs.Nooseman; Diana in Wisconsin; bfree; Graybeard58; CSM; metesky

WalMart Ping

We can thank the mentality of the anti-smokers for these situations.......they insist it has to be their way and use government force to get it, instead of using the common sense God gave them to go elsewhere.

What really burns me about this lawsuit is these women KNEW that WalMart was not stocking this and did this anyway even knowing the product was readily available elsewhere.

I'm totally behind WalMart on this, and would be regardless of the business involved.


29 posted on 02/20/2006 8:24:42 AM PST by Gabz (Smoke gnatzies: small minds buzzing in you business........SWAT'EM)
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To: rhombus
As I understood it, Walmart itself didn't make the decision about whether to carry or not to carry this particular drug.

It really doesn't matter. Wal-Mart is the one the slimeball lawyers and their anti-life clients sued.

30 posted on 02/20/2006 8:27:13 AM PST by XR7
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To: tkathy

Who are "we"? "We" should simply go to a pharmacy that carries the pill. Or ask the gubmint to force the doctors that prescribe the morning after pill to supply it to their patients. No need to try and coerce Walmart.


31 posted on 02/20/2006 8:28:28 AM PST by 05 Mustang GT Rocks
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To: Gabz

The Great American Pastime: "Casebuilding."
Build a case. Sue. Maybe get rich.

32 posted on 02/20/2006 8:29:18 AM PST by XR7
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To: zarf

Hmmm. Since money changes hands, it appears that business is being conducted. At a place of business. A PRIVATE business.


33 posted on 02/20/2006 8:29:43 AM PST by oblomov (Join the FR Folding@Home Team (#36120) keyword: folding@home)
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To: tkathy
We don't want to see the morning after pill and the RU486 being sold by illegal drug dealers. Far better to obtain them legally, under a doctor's care.

We don't?

What is the principle here? It SOUNDS like,"People will break the law in a way dangerous to themselves, so we should make what they want to do legal."

I agree that it is sad if an armed robber is gunned down by the, um, robbEE, if the robbee has the wits and guts to be prepared and to act on the preparation. But I don't think we should make robbery legal in order to make things safer for the robber.

What am I missing?

Is it a legitimate principle of licensing that the issuer of the license gets to require you to do stuff you think wrong? If so, then some pharmacists have a duty to look for another line of work, or the same line in another place.

34 posted on 02/20/2006 8:30:57 AM PST by Mad Dawg (Allahu Fubar! (with apologies to Sheik Yerbouty) and a Vang-Comp 870 for the ragheads!)
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To: 05 Mustang GT Rocks

Some "conservatives" at FR are more interested in banning headscarves and forcing Saudi Arabia to let women drive Jeeps, than they are in reducing government tyranny here.


35 posted on 02/20/2006 8:32:24 AM PST by oblomov (Join the FR Folding@Home Team (#36120) keyword: folding@home)
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To: XR7

loonies running the asylum alert...pillar of salt alert...sodom and gomorrah alert...mass is wacked alert...


36 posted on 02/20/2006 8:32:30 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (i'd rather hunt with Cheney than drive with Kennedy)
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To: zarf

they should carry one pill in each store


37 posted on 02/20/2006 8:38:45 AM PST by bessay
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To: XR7

I think it does matter, if the decision had been made by Walmart itself I think they would have stood on stronger ground.


38 posted on 02/20/2006 8:39:03 AM PST by rhombus
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To: oblomov

It would be more "progressive" if they tried to force the Saudis to let women drive hybrids. Global Warming, you know...


39 posted on 02/20/2006 8:40:08 AM PST by 05 Mustang GT Rocks
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To: zarf

"A pharmacy should make all legal products available to those with perscriptions, the gubmint should STFU."

You're missing the point when you say the "gubmint shoud STFU". I agree that they should but it's the government here that's mandating that Wal-Mart carry it. Since when is that the governments role?


40 posted on 02/20/2006 8:40:23 AM PST by half-cajun
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