Pharmacy Board makes the right call on Plan B: Private Pharmacies: sell it if you want, or not.

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Back in 2007, the fringe leftists generally and the Governor particularly coerced the State Pharmacy Board... at the threat of firing... to require all pharmacies and pharmacists to dispense Plan B, aka, the Morning After Pill.

The idea that government at any level may force anyone to sell anything is absurd on it's face. The fringe left nutters, like Seattle Times columnist Nicole Brodeur, best known to know as expressing her rampant leftist bias by cheering the resignation of Karl Rove, who the fringe-leftists tried, convicted and attempted to punish for the outing of Valerie Plame (Which was actually accomplished by Richard Armitage) is one of those doing the very thing she convicts the Pharmacy Board of doing by judging THEIR actions in reaffirming a private pharmacy/pharmacists ability to decide NOT to carry the Plan B or any any other medication.

Now, I'm not sure where the Board found it's testicular fortitude, but find it they did and now the RIGHT for a private company to decide what to sell is now in the state's regulations.

Brodeur and her fellow fringers have, accordingly, lost their collective minds.

And in so doing, they completely miss the point.

The state should have no more right to require a private company to sell any particular product then they should have the right to tell Brodeur what to put in one of her columns.

She snivels that the pharmacy board, cowed by the rampant and public threats of the Governor, put her moronic rule into place as if there wasn't any need for a board. And now, 3 years later, they've properly reversed course and put the rights of the business owner ahead of the whining of the left.

And in the end, that's what this issue boils down to. It's the same as ordering a gas station to sell synthetic oil. While it may make good business sense for the station to sell synthetic oil, the decision to sell it, or anything else, rests entirely with the owner... and the state shouldn't come along and require that sale... any more then they should require any private entity to sell anything they want.

It obviously is the position of the whiners that their moral compass is superior to those who own or operate private pharmacies. Fortunately for us, what the whiners think does not, in fact, exceed the rights of the retailers. And, as always, if Brodeur and her ilk don't like it, they can open up their own pharmacy and show everyone else how it's done.

Meanwhile, the state needs to focus on more important things... like cutting state payroll $4.5 billion or so in the next biennium. As for what the pharmacies do or don't do... MYOB, Michelle. It's nunya.
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