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August 16, 2006

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by AltHippo @ 1:38 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

From Truthout:

The pharmacist on duty, according to a complaint filed with the California Board of Pharmacy, had refused to fill Smith’s prescription, even after she and her husband went in again to try and convince him.

“This man very obviously had his own issue,” said Smith. “He kept telling me, ‘If you and your ‘boyfriend’ were not so irresponsible, you would not have to be dealing with this.’”

Smith’s complaint detailed how the pharmacist, identified as David Becker-Ellison, also had refused to accept the prescription into the system and transfer it to another pharmacy. By law in California, a pharmacist who has ethical or religious objections to emergency contraception must notify his employer beforehand. According to Lilly Spitz, chief legal counsel for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, “it’s up to the employer to accommodate them by employing someone else who can dispense [emergency contraception].”

“Mr. [Becker-Ellison] was the only pharmacist on duty at Longs at that time,” Smith’s complaint reads. “We left the pharmacy without the prescription and with no option for having it transferred to another pharmacy.”

While this is usually framed as a freedom-of-choice issue vs. right-to-life issue, I’d like to bring this up as a worker’s rights issue. I find it interesting that workers are dis-empowered on things like the minimum wage, or when their employers treat them as temporary employees to avoid paying benefits, or having their jobs moved overseas. But, if a pharmacist refuses to sell Plan B, he’s suddenly empowered. On issues relating to forced procreation, it’s worker’s rights all the way, baby.

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