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? Thats debatable, but it is happening.
Wal-Mart was ordered this week by the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy to carry the morning after pill. Its 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 dont want to sell?
...You dont own Wal-Mart. I mean, youre notright. You dont have a business relationship with Wal-Mart, I assume. Wal-Mart is owned by its stock holders. And so why shouldnt they get to decide what Wal-Mart sells? I guess Im 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 Im not allowed to tell a grocery store what has to sell, and neither is governmentyet.
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Pro-abortion feminists are not happy to have the "right to control their own bodies," as they put it. They want to force other people to cater to their choice. Surely, logical consistency compels you to agree that if no one may force a woman against her will to become and remain pregnant, no one may be forced against their will to assist a woman to avoid pregnancy or to abort a child.
You will not get an arguement from me about that.
I am appalled that there is actually a doctor involved in this. The lawyers I expect it from, but not from a doctor.
And some people on FR. I've posted corrections several times.
Yesiree. You'd think that in America, that would be a "no-brainer." Unfortunately not. Not even on FR. How far we have fallen!
Then why should they stock condoms?
Then why should they stock condoms?
Is the government mandating them to do it?
You've captured the essence of libertarian hypocrisy. Libertarians are anti-statist only to the extent that the state intrudes on their interests. They are fanatically pro-statist to the extent that state power is useful in forcing everyone else to accomodate and submit to libertarian interests.
Same state power, different set of criminals. In this case, the "criminal" is Wal-Mart. If Wal-Mart will not do what libertarians think Wal-Mart should do, libertarians have no qualms about calling in the state to crack heads.
I'm with you. Granted it is a licensed/restricted business (pharmacies) but so are other types of businesses. Is the state mandated liquor license holders stock EVERY available kind of alcohol? I think not.
A very sad commentary on a very sad state of affairs.
Should be able to choose not to. For instance, suppose a pharmacy gets broken into all the time by pill poppers over some product, so they decide not to carry it. You want Big Momma Government to tell them to carry it anyway?
The fact that emergency "contraception" can prevent implantation means it can be an abortifacient. At that point there's not a dime's worth of difference with RU-486.
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It's an entirely different drug (RU-486 is mifepristol), but don't let accuracy detract from emotionalism, by all means. :)
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FYI.
The trial lawyers would love to force all wallmarts to carry the abortion pill so they can sue walmart when a customer suffers a serious side effect.
Maybe a little off topic, but are their any good articles/sources out there discussing these pills and their effects?
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