S.D.Watch/Thune watch is offended by pharmacy chains that refuse to sell abortiofacients. This, says Lance Moran, standing in for Todd Epp, is discriminating against women.
It's truly outrageous. When a woman and her doctor decide that a
prescription for contraception is in the woman's best interest,
a third party has no right to override that decision.
I respectively disagree, on several counts:
- This is not discriminating against women, its discriminating against a controversial procedure.
- The issue isn't contraception, its abortion. They are mutually exclusive.
- A car dealer who refused to sell SUVs out of a concern for the environment is entitled to make that choice, my right to buy and drive one not withstanding. Likewise with RU486.
- If a Seventh Day Adventist can refuse to work on Saturdays and still is entitled to unemployment payments (she can), a pharmacist should be able to refused to sell abortiofacients out of similar scruples.
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