Let's Hear it for Illinois
Friday, April 1st, 2005 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniIllinois governor: No delays in birth control prescriptions
Friday, April 1, 2005 Posted: 7:29 PM EST (0029 GMT)
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich approved an emergency rule Friday requiring pharmacies to fill birth control prescriptions quickly after a Chicago pharmacist refused to fill an order because of moral opposition to the drug.
The emergency rule takes effect immediately for 150 days while the administration seeks a permanent rule.
"Our regulation says that if a woman goes to a pharmacy with a prescription for birth control, the pharmacy or the pharmacist is not allowed to discriminate or to choose who he sells it to," Blagojevich said. "No delays. No hassles. No lectures."
Under the new rule, if a pharmacist does not fill the prescription because of a moral objection, another pharmacist must be available to fill it without delay.
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Friday, April 1, 2005 Posted: 7:29 PM EST (0029 GMT)
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich approved an emergency rule Friday requiring pharmacies to fill birth control prescriptions quickly after a Chicago pharmacist refused to fill an order because of moral opposition to the drug.
The emergency rule takes effect immediately for 150 days while the administration seeks a permanent rule.
"Our regulation says that if a woman goes to a pharmacy with a prescription for birth control, the pharmacy or the pharmacist is not allowed to discriminate or to choose who he sells it to," Blagojevich said. "No delays. No hassles. No lectures."
Under the new rule, if a pharmacist does not fill the prescription because of a moral objection, another pharmacist must be available to fill it without delay.
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Re: Hooray and...
Date: 2005-04-02 05:42 pm (UTC)I don't see that this regulation requires a pharmacist to fill a prescription over his own moral objections. It just says that the prescription will by golly get filled.
You know, I've never heard before of an RC pharmacist refusing to fill a birth control prescription (and what if it's not for birth control, huh? huh? ever think of that, you turkey?). They might not approve, but they'd do it. Refusing seems to me to be a more fundamentalist kind of response. And fundamentalism and Roman Catholicism.... oh, well. It's been a long time since I attended Mass. Things have changed.
I guess the fundamentalist movement has sanctioned, you should forgive the pun, a lot of actions in churches where they never used to exist.