Kudos to the Illinios governor for passing an emergency contraceptive bill

http://us.cnn.com/2005/US/04/01/birth.control.governor.ap/index.html

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." END SNIP

Doing away with abortion rights birth control at the same time is going back to the dark ages. This is going to be a real battle, I fear. Good for this governor.

but he done good here!

I'm glad he did that. Isn't that pathetic you have to write a special bill for someone to be able to get their perscription filled? Women use birth controll for other issues too. Not just pregnancy. :eyes: How immature of these pharmacists. :banghead:

I think this is why I am so disturbed about the party using us for negotiation in order to win. I have 3 daughters, and the thought of this happening is just unreal.

Osco Drug is owned by Albertsons, who has that Patricia Heaton creature flogging their wares. Not to say that Albertsons is liable for the religious views of either the pharmacist or their spokesperson, but now two on their payroll are in the news for their anti-choice stance.

This only lasts 150 days and he doesn't have a good reputation for following up on things.

my guess would be no

in fact, the pharmacist probably grabbed a pack on his way home

It is just outrageous for this to happen.

They'd never get away with that. Of course not.

IMCPO, if a pharmacist has a moral opposition to filling birth control prescriptions, he/she should quit the damn job. Who the hell are THEY to decide whether a woman takes birth control pills? If he wants to control HIS wfe, that's HER problem, but these people need to mind their own damn business. :grr: GOOD for my Governor! He did the RIGHT thing.

And some women use birth control for PCOS. Doy. These people are really getting on my nervous.

I am having a lot of trouble with this. I know Catholics are asked not to use these methods, but what other groups?

The fundamentalists have joined with Catholic, as I knew they were doing here in Florida. I found this by doing a search on the Christisn Legal Society.

http://naacd.com/good_links.htm
National Alliance Against Christian Discrimination

"Protecting and Promoting the Christian Faith and Our Religious Heritage

Here are the groups they call their opposition:
http://naacd.com/opposition.htm

"As a seeker of truth, if you doubt my propositions, go to the websites of these different organizations and read their mission statements, accomplishments, and planned activities. My objective is to raise the awareness level of their liberal paradigm shifts, historical revisionism, anti-christian bias, and their desired conservative, religious purging that has taken place over the last several decades…and is escalating."

American Atheists
Home: http://www.atheists.org/

American Civil Liberties Union
Home: http://aclu.org

American Humanist Association
Home: http://www.americanhumanist.org/

American Library Association
Home: http://www.ala.org

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State
Home: http://au.org

Anti-Defamation League
Home: http://www.adl.org

Freedom From Religion Foundation (Freethinkers)
Home: http://www.infidels.org/index.shtml

Gays and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
Home :http://www.glaad.org

Human Rights Campaign
Home: http://www.hrc.org/

The Interfaith Alliance
Home: http://www.tialliance.org

National Abortion and Reproductive Rights League (NARAL)
Home: http://www.naral.org/index2.asp

National Education Association
Home: http://www.nea.org

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Home: http://www.ngltf.org

National Organization for Women (NOW)
Home: http://www.now.org

People for the American Way
Home: http://pfaw.org

Planned Parenthood
Home : http://www.plannedparenthood.org

Here is their founder:
http://naacd.com/founder.htm

SNIP..."Tom Pedigo , an ordained minister (M.Div.), is the Executive Director for the National Alliance Against Christian Discrimination and has served in this position for one year. Tom has been married for over 31 years and has two grown children. He has pastored three churches over the last twenty years and has served in other ministries for the last eight years."

" Tom has worked as a Correspondence Assistant to Dr. James Dobson at Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs. He has also had radio programs called "The Salt Factor" heard on KGFT-FM and KWYD-AM in the Front Range area. Rev. Pedigo also has served as the State Director for the American Family Association for ten years...."

Disclaimer as usual:
I am a Christian, a real one. I am an ex-Southern Baptist. I do not consider a lot of them very real anymore. Some are waking up.

many are for other female 'problems' that are not conception oriented.

Do these same 'pharmacists' have any problem filling Viagra or Cialis (sp?) prescriptions???

Edit: spelling

One of our daughters has cysts that form if she stops low dosage birth control for very long. She could be in real trouble with those bleeding cysts.

This is serious territory they are getting into here.

I sincerely doubt it. All they care about is that it is a script for birth control. Doesn't matter why the prescription was written in the first place. And even if was for birth control purposes, who are they to override a Doctor's opinion?

I would argue that they don't. It's not the pharmacist's duty to to prescribe the medicine, only to fill what the Doctor has ordered.

Edit for some sort of clarity.

for Viagra or Cialis? Of course not.

No restrictions on their rights.

"every sperm is sacred". And every woman is an immoral tart. Or some other such misogynistic horseshit. Damn them.

get the men to perform, but let the women suffer the consequences.

A big ego thing about performance, and to heck with us.

What's the difference if a man uses a condom or a woman uses BC? It's all the same difference. Do they refuse the men condoms? If not, we should RIOT over this. :grr:

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