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  • Prescription for firings: Call Walgreens boycott

    12/03/2005 2:17:17 PM PST · by wagglebee · 77 replies · 1,255+ views
    WorldNetDaily ^ | 12/3/05 | WorldNetDaily
    A Southern Illinois abortion foe, backed by her local Catholic diocese, is asking consumers to pull their prescriptions from Walgreens until four pharmacists, on unpaid leave for refusing to agree to fill orders for the morning-after contraceptive pill, are reinstated. Ann Polka, manager for the Belleville Diocese's Project Rachel, a post-abortion healing program, is also asking regional residents to refrain from doing other shopping at the chain's stores. "This is an unjust action," Polka told the Belleville, Illinois, News-Democrat. "They are being let go because they couldn't in good conscience dispense the drugs." At issue is the Plan B morning-after...