LYCHEE: Right to choose your birth control!

Call to action from Act for Change website. Sign up to be on their email lists and I will not keep posting them here. Well, maybe if it something really, really crazy, like this. This is just ridiculous. Does this mean that if I don't believe in smoking cigarrettes I can refuse to sell them to smokers? (True,since I work in a school, selling them would be illegal, but lets go back to my days at Blockbuster -- could I refuse to rent movies I think are bad to customers? For instance, that overhyped "Lost in Translation"?) Where does it end? What am I talking about, you ask? Here, as Ms. Keenan already eloquently explains it:

Dear ActForChange Member,

It usually happens like this: a woman goes to her doctor and receives her birth control prescription, and then gets it filled at the pharmacy. Right? Wrong. Welcome to the anti-choice movement’s latest — and most insidious — attack on a woman’s right to choose.

Here’s what’s happening: In as many as 20 states, pharmacies are able to refuse to fill women’s prescriptions for contraception — including the morning-after pill.

It’s truly outrageous. When a woman and her doctor decide that a prescription for contraception is in the woman’s best interest, a third party has no right to override that decision. Pharmacies must ensure that their customers get their doctor-prescribed medication without delay or inconvenience.

Click here to tell our nation’s biggest pharmacies — Wal-Mart, CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens and Eckerd — not to stand between a woman and her physician. . . .

Sincerely,
Nancy Keenan, President
NARAL Pro-Choice Americaa