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Article: Beyond the issue of pharmacist refusals: pharmacies that won't sell emergency contraception.(Issues & Implications)
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- The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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In recent months, incidents of pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception have attracted significant media attention. Lawmakers at the state and federal levels have responded with a raft of proposals designed to protect consumers. Typically, these proposals address the related questions of whether pharmacists should be allowed to refuse to fill valid prescriptions on moral or religious grounds, and, if so, what obligation the pharmacy has to the public when its pharmacist refuses.
But focusing on the pharmacists' role and addressing the pharmacy's responsibility to consumers only when a pharmacist refuses to fill prescriptions sidesteps a ...
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