Plan B: Ridiculous denials
By EDITORIAL BOARD
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
A pro-choice organization announced on Wednesday that 10 percent of the state's pharmacies don't carry or dispense the emergency contraceptive drug Plan B.
Depending on where the court case goes, there's a chance that none of the pharmacies in the state will have to dispense Plan B if either the owner of the pharmacy or the pharmacists working there feel that doing so would violate their religious beliefs.
NARAL Pro-Choice Washington (the state affiliate of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League) did a phone survey and found that 10 percent of pharmacies surveyed in the state don't stock Plan B or have at least one pharmacist on staff who refuses to dispense the hormonal form of birth control, which some opponents mistakenly refer to as an abortive agent.
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