Birth Control
It's official: Americans can no longer take prescription birth control
for granted. Monday, July 25, anti-choice representatives
in the U.S. House made it clear that they support pharmacies that
refuse to fill birth-control prescriptions - and that women have no
right to birth control. The radical right's campaign to stop birth control The
House Small Business Committee held a hearing on whether pharmacies
should be allowed to refuse to fill women's prescriptions. Anti-choice
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told a witness, who had been denied birth
control and emergency contraception by her pharmacist, that she had no
"right" to her prescriptions - she only believed she did. Anti-choice
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO) told a witness whose prescription had also
been rejected by a hostile pharmacist, that her "minor inconvenience" -
that is, risking an unintended pregnancy - was nothing compared to the
"conscience" of a pharmacist. The right's anti-birth control
campaign doesn't stop in Washington, DC. Across the country, the
radical right has engaged pharmacies in its campaign to block women's
access to birth control. Women like Julee Lacey, a 32-year-old married
mother of two and first-grade teacher from Texas, are being turned away
by vigilante pharmacists who think it's their job to dispense morals
instead of medicine. Now, as many as 20 states officially
protect pharmacists like Karen Brauer, president of Pharmacists for
Life, who says she'd lecture women customers to get off the pill.
Other states are pursuing an even more aggressive strategy. Just last
month Wisconsin passed a bill to block state universities from filling
birth control prescriptions. What you can do Tell your
Member of Congress that you expect him or her to stand up for you - not
right-wing pharmacies that oppose birth control. http://prochoiceaction.org/can/join.html?r=M7LhANY1tX8jE&
for granted. Monday, July 25, anti-choice representatives
in the U.S. House made it clear that they support pharmacies that
refuse to fill birth-control prescriptions - and that women have no
right to birth control. The radical right's campaign to stop birth control The
House Small Business Committee held a hearing on whether pharmacies
should be allowed to refuse to fill women's prescriptions. Anti-choice
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told a witness, who had been denied birth
control and emergency contraception by her pharmacist, that she had no
"right" to her prescriptions - she only believed she did. Anti-choice
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO) told a witness whose prescription had also
been rejected by a hostile pharmacist, that her "minor inconvenience" -
that is, risking an unintended pregnancy - was nothing compared to the
"conscience" of a pharmacist. The right's anti-birth control
campaign doesn't stop in Washington, DC. Across the country, the
radical right has engaged pharmacies in its campaign to block women's
access to birth control. Women like Julee Lacey, a 32-year-old married
mother of two and first-grade teacher from Texas, are being turned away
by vigilante pharmacists who think it's their job to dispense morals
instead of medicine. Now, as many as 20 states officially
protect pharmacists like Karen Brauer, president of Pharmacists for
Life, who says she'd lecture women customers to get off the pill.
Other states are pursuing an even more aggressive strategy. Just last
month Wisconsin passed a bill to block state universities from filling
birth control prescriptions. What you can do Tell your
Member of Congress that you expect him or her to stand up for you - not
right-wing pharmacies that oppose birth control. http://prochoiceaction.org/can/join.html?r=M7LhANY1tX8jE&