Monday, June 04, 2007

Pro-abortion brownshirts right behind them

Because "choice" means doing as you're damn well told.

Again via Mark Shea, a pharmacy that has the gall to decide what they want to sell, without the permission of Planned Parenthood:
A Great Falls pharmacy's decision to phase out the sale of prescription birth control pills for moral reasons is stirring a small firestorm of controversy locally and a buzz of criticism nationwide on women's health Web sites.

The state of Montana has no law that requires pharmacists to carry all prescription products, but some women's groups fear it's part of a national trend by activist pharmacists to restrict use of birth control pills.

The new owners of Snyder Drug, Stuart and Kyla Anderson and Kurt and Kori Depner, say they started phasing out the filling of oral contraceptive prescriptions in early May for moral and business reasons.

They are not accepting any new prescriptions for the drugs and have told current customers they will stop filling oral contraceptive orders when their existing supply runs out, probably in a month or two, Stuart Anderson said.
The pharmacy, at 2516 6th Ave. N. in the Northside Shopping Center, didn't fill too many prescriptions for oral contraceptives anyway, Kyla Anderson said, and didn't make much of a profit from those sales.

However, that's not the main reason for the policy change, the couples said.

Certain oral contraceptives and Plan B, the so-called "morning-after pill," are "abortifacients" that can work by inhibiting fertilized eggs from implanting on the womb, which the pharmacy's owners consider immoral abortion, the Andersons said.

They are devout Catholics and do not believe in abortion, they added. Stuart Anderson said they made their decision as individuals and are not part of a national movement.

But Jill Baker, education director of Planned Parenthood of Montana, said the decision by the owners of Snyder Drug "denies women access to basic health care.

Basic health care, my ass. When Planned Parenthood gets outraged over a pharmacy that won't sell me heart medicine, I'll believe they're interested in something besides narrowing all choices down to theirs.

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