PLAN B: Where’s focus on patient care?
Re: “Judge says Washington can’t make pharmacies sell Plan B” (TNT, 2-22). To all the pharmacists out there who daily do a wonderful job without the need to pass moral judgment on their customers,...
View ArticlePLAN B: Keep religion out of state’s pharmacies
Re: “Judge says Washington can’t make pharmacies sell Plan B” (TNT, 2-22). Hopefully, another generation or two will see the religious zealots losing their political clout. Or, absent that, losing...
View ArticlePLAN B: Objectors should have to post a notice to that effect
Our laws should allow pharmacies to follow their own conscience if, and only if, they are willing to make that conscience known to all. If they don’t want to dispense Plan B medications, they should be...
View ArticlePLAN B: A simple solution
Sometimes the simplest answer to a problem is also the correct one. Washington licenses pharmacists to operate here. If your beliefs do not allow you to fulfill the duties of a pharmacist, no license...
View ArticlePLAN B: Thank extremists from the past
Re: “Don’t give in to extremists” (letter, 2-21). To call a pharmacist a religious extremist for objecting to life-ending procedures is like calling the people who objected to slavery extremists. The...
View ArticlePLAN B: Prompt access is vital for effectiveness
I believe the ability to control your own fertility is a fundamental right. The decision to take the Plan B pill falls within this right. Plan B is a form of emergency contraception that has proven to...
View ArticleBIRTH CONTROL: Who should pay for private activity?
I don’t understand why insurance companies and employers are being saddled with the responsibility of providing free contraceptives where there is an objections to doing so as a matter of conscience. I...
View ArticleRELIGION: Liberty under assault by the left
The U.S. Constitution provides for the “free exercise” of religion, but the current administrations at both the federal and state levels intentionally pursue actions that ignore the constitutional...
View ArticlePLAN B: Why sell it behind the counter?
Our state is appealing the federal court ruling that pharmacists are not required to dispense Plan B (TNT, 3-22). The ruling pointed out that we allow pharmacies to employ discretion when they refuse...
View ArticlePLAN B: Many parents fail to face today’s realities
Kathleen Parker’s inner debate (column, 5-7) about the role of government vs. parents in the Plan B emergency contraceptive controversy ignores certain realities. Reality: Many parents refuse to...
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