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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Meanwhile my wife's recent purchase of PediaCare Infant Drops required that she go to the pharmacy counter, show her drivers license and sign a registry. All because it contains ephedrine. It is now more burdensome to get your child over the counter medication for the sniffles than to potentially abort a child.
I don't know any food or drugstore that doesn't carry condoms. So, if a store carries condoms, why wouldn't they carry the morning after pill?
A pharmacy should make all legal products available to those with perscriptions, the gubmint should STFU.
Why? There is nothing "legal" about pharmaceuticals causing abortions. Read the Comstock Law. Its still in the US Code.
Whoever brings into the United States, or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or knowingly uses any express company or other common carrier or interactive computer service (as defined in section 230(e)(2) [1] of the Communications Act of 1934), for carriage in interstate or foreign commerce—(c) any drug, medicine, article, or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use
Whoever knowingly takes or receives, from such express company or other common carrier or interactive computer service (as defined in section 230(e)(2) [1] of the Communications Act of 1934) any matter or thing the carriage or importation of which is herein made unlawful—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both, for the first such offense and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both, for each such offense thereafter.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001462----000-.html
There are at least three reasons why this decision is abominable.
1. Freedom and private property. Stores and markets should be free to stock what they like. Customers who don't like it can go elsewhere.
2. Morality. These morning after pills are abortificients, and they kill unborn babies. No one should be forced to be complicit in murder.
3. Health. There is plenty of evidence that these pills are extremely dangerous to the sometimes minor girls who take them. If not for the support of the abortion industry and the abortion lobby, it's very doubtful whether these pills would have been given a pass by the health authorities.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if, five or ten years down the road, we see a bunch of major lawsuits, as pharmacies are sued for selling dangerous pills that have killed a number of women. Class action suits can be anticipated. And I doubt whether NOW, NARAL, or these legislatures will step up and take any responsibility for their actions.
This case, or one just like it, will end up before the Supreme Court.
I hadn't thought about it that way.
Talk about a get rich quick scheme.......sue a company to force it to sell a product, and when something goes wrong sue them again for it.
Brilliant strategy..........I think I need a drink :(
That's not my point...it seems a bit hypocritical to sell condoms, but not sell morning after pills.
Its rather like the Seperation of Church and State in France. The French passed a law in 1905 that "seperated" Church and State by having the State confiscate all houses of worship and real property held by religious bodies and take title to them, granting them back to religion as they see fit, as well as closing all religious schools and forcing everyone into government schools.
I agree. Also if they had to go as far as closing the stores also, Massachusetts isn't that big so theywould lose to many. Hanoi john and Chappaquidick Fatz are leading this state into a Communist state. Come on America, WE have to take America back from the enemy within led by the two I mentioned and many others. God Bless America and All who have fought for HER from Concord Bridge till today and ON.
Most people are able to see through your semantics. Yes, it's a different drug, but if it prevents implantation it is an abortifacient. Don't let your support of abortion obscure the truth.
Emergency Contraception (also known as The "Morning After" Pill or "Plan B")
What is Emergency Contraception?
Pregnancy can be prevented after intercourse by taking Emergency Contraceptive pills (EC). It works by giving the body a short, high, burst of synthetic hormones. This disrupts hormone patterns needed for pregnancy. EC disturbs the ovaries and the development of the uterine lining, making pregnancy less likely. EC is used within 120 hours (5 days) after intercourse. It is most effective within the first 24 hours. Emergency Contraception reduces the risk of pregnancy by 75%. EC does not protect against reproductive tract infections, including HIV/AIDS.
You can find more at
http://www.fwhc.org/birth-control/ecinfo.htm
"A pharmacy should make all legal products available to those with perscriptions, the gubmint should STFU."
So should doctors also be forced to commit abortions because they're legal?
Or, if somebody has too many kids, they should have a forced abortion, because they're legal?
I thought "pro-choice" meant freedom to choose. Guess not.
Oh good grief, I forgot about that.........and I'm almost out of stuff for both my and my daughter's sniffles.
I couldn't understand why the last pack of Sudafed didn't really work well....it contains no pseudoephedrine. No wonder I was able to buy it at the grocery store that doesn't have a pharmacy. The nearest pharmacy to me is across the state line in Maryland.
I guess I'll have my husband stop for it on his way home and remind him to go to the phjarmacist - in WalMart :)
"It is now more burdensome to get your child over the counter medication for the sniffles than to potentially abort a child."
You can't even get sudafed after the pharmacy closes. I really needed some the other day but got there after the pharmacy closed. Maybe I should sue. /sarc
"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."
Yeah, making someone walk down the street to the CVS or Walgreens is sure to cause this.
So much for "pro-choice" meaning "freedom to choose."
One prevents conception. The other can terminate a pregnancy.
Masturbation is different from murder.
SD
You can google "morning after pill" and "how it works" and get lots of hits. Since it's a higher dosage of regular birth control pills, it primarily acts to suppress ovulation (if a woman is in the right part of her cycle). It also changes mucus membranes, which can affect the sperm's ability to penetrate the cervix, and change the lining of the uterus so it is less susceptible to implantation.
Any of those things seem preferable to surgical abortion several weeks later, as far as I'm concerned.
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