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Is this what we have come to? I'm sorry, but this is just plain ridiculous. I can sort of understand why they wouldn't want to offer the morning after pill, but birth control? How friggen ridiculous! Birth control promotes promiscuity? Really? Is there evidence of this? *humongous eye roll* Quote: 'Pro-Life' Drugstores Market Beliefs
No Contraceptives For Chantilly Shop
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 16, 2008; A01
When DMC Pharmacy opens this summer on Route 50 in Chantilly, the shelves will be stocked with allergy remedies, pain relievers, antiseptic ointments and almost everything else sold in any drugstore. But anyone who wants condoms, birth control pills or the Plan B emergency contraceptive will be turned away.
That's because the drugstore, located in a typical shopping plaza featuring a Ruby Tuesday, a Papa John's and a Kmart, will be a "pro-life pharmacy" -- meaning, among other things, that it will eschew all contraceptives.
The pharmacy is one of a small but growing number of drugstores around the country that have become the latest front in a conflict pitting patients' rights against those of health-care workers who assert a "right of conscience" to refuse to provide care or products that they find objectionable. . . .
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