Supreme Court right to not interfere with Wash. state’s pharmacy contraceptive rules
I wonder if Judge Susan Graber‘s opinion “Speed is particularly important considering the time-sensitive nature of emergency contraception and of
many other medications…
The personal beliefs of pharmacists cannot outweigh their professional duty — or the law.”
could apply to medications that are used for subjective diseases (pain, anxiety, depression, ADD/ADHD, mental health) that the pt should not be subjected cannot send the woman to another pharmacy miles away… which seems to describe the “Pharmacy crawl “
Does this open a “can of worms” for those Pharmacists who believe that they can reject filling a otherwise legal Rx … for any reason ?
The U.S. Supreme Court was right not to interfere with Washington’s rules regarding a woman’s access to emergency contraception at the pharmacy.
The U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to consider Washington’s 2007 rules, essentially ensuring women’s access to emergency contraception.
In recent weeks, a state judge correctly ruled that public hospital districts must follow state law and provide abortions themselves — and not outsource the duty to Planned Parenthood — if they provide maternity care. And the U.S. Supreme Court turned back Texas’ stealth attempt to shut down abortion clinics with undue medical regulations.
In the pharmacy case, the state rules say a pharmacist can simply hand an objectionable prescription to another non-objecting pharmacist on-site, if one is available, but cannot send the woman to another pharmacy miles away.
“Speed is particularly important considering the time-sensitive nature of emergency contraception and of many other medications,” federal appellate Judge Susan Graber wrote in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last year. She also noted that the pass-the-prescription game subjected women to shame for seeking a lawful medicine.
The personal beliefs of pharmacists cannot outweigh their professional duty — or the law.
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