Pharmacy Board grows a pair and tells Gregoire to get stuffed: Pharmacists can refuse Plan B.

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The self-evident idiocy of requiring private individuals or pharmacies to do something that violates their beliefs, or require them to carry and dispense a product they may oppose is out there for all to see.

State Board of Pharmacy reverses Plan B stance
Morning after’ pill: Rule would let pharmacists refuse to dispense drug

JORDAN SCHRADER; Staff writer
Published: 07/14/1012:05 am Updated: 07/14/10 9:25 am

Pharmacists who object to selling Plan B emergency contraception suddenly have the upper hand in their legal fight with the state.

In a reversal, the state Board of Pharmacy now wants to let pharmacies refuse to dispense that or any other drug, as long as they refer patients to a pharmacy that sells it.

It’s essentially what pharmacies suing the state over moral objections wanted all along, said Kevin Stormans, co-owner of Ralph’s Thriftway in Olympia, where druggists don’t stock Plan B. “That’s what we’ve done for as long as I can remember,” he said.

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Where the TNT board's the fail boat is "forgetting" to report how all this came about in the first place.

Gregoire didn't cotton to the fact that the Pharmacy Board has no difficulty differentiating between "private and "public."

Those rules were meant as a compromise after long, contentious hearings and intervention by Gov. Christine Gregoire, who threatened to replace members of the Board of Pharmacy who didn't vote to protect women's rights.

One wonders what she's going to do now.

The fringe leftists who have no concept of the idea of "private property" will throw a fit at the very idea that the state will not be able to force private individuals and entities to do what they want, the way they want it.

The stupidity of FORCING a pharmacy to fill prescriptions they do not want to fill is right up there with FORCING a gas station to sell tires. Allowing a political world view to infringe on private property rights?

No problem for those who don't HAVE "private property." Unfortunately for them, the Constitution stands in the way of additional government control over the private sector.
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