Feds offer another bungling approach to healthcare

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The federal government may be showing how inept it is at dealing with health issues in a bill recently filed in Congress.

Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) has introduced a bill that would force pharmacists to personally dispense contraceptives, the “morning-after” pill, and the “week-after” pill – and would not allow them to pass the prescription to another pharmacist.

Karen Brauer, who heads Pharmacists for Life International, explains that Booker’s “Access to Birth Control Act” leaves no “out” of any kind for pharmacists.

“Some of the articles that are out there imply that it only addresses the morning-after pill or what’s called ’emergency’ contraception, but it actually addresses all birth-control pills, devices or whatever can be dispensed at a pharmacy,” she says. 

That law would be required regardless of a pharmacist’s objection based on faith or conscience. Then again, it leaves a pharmacist open for a lawsuit, for example, for refusing to sell “Plan B” to a woman even if for non-religious reasons.

“The morning-after pill doesn’t work enough to be taken if a woman weighs 165 pounds or more,” she adds. “If she weighs 175 pounds, it doesn’t work at all.”

So if a pharmacist declines to sell it for that reason, Brauer explains, an offended customer could sue – meaning it places a burden on any pharmacist, not just those whose faith would prohibit it. In addition to facing a possible lawsuit, a pharmacist violating the law could face fines of $1,000 a day up to a maximum $100,000.

“The federal government has shown a real capacity to be stupid with respect to healthcare, and this bill, in the way it’s written, is proof of that,” Brauer tells OneNewsNow.

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