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Access To Legal Pharmaceuticals Act Itsdb 06/07/05
    What do you experts think of the proposed ALPhA act, which is designed basically to guarantee women can get the contraceptives they're prescribed?

    The first thing I notice is these findings:

    The Congress finds as follows:

    (1) An individual's right to religious belief and worship is a protected, fundamental right in the United States.

    (2) An individual's right to access legal contraception is a protected, fundamental right in the United States.

    (3) An individual's right to religious belief and worship cannot impede an individual's access to legal prescriptions, including contraception.

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    Doesn't number 3 pretty much trump number 1? How can one's "right to religious belief and worship" be protected if it "cannot impede an individual's access to legal prescriptions?"

    Example, we still have a few home-owned pharmacies in town, and say the owner is the only pharmacist but objects to selling the morning after pill, will he/she be forced to provide it or face fines?

    Is this government telling pharmacies they must sell certain items?

    And for you ex, isn't this a bit hypocritical in light of yesterday's medical marijuana ruling? The Feds won't allow medical marijuana even in states that legalized it, but want to force pharmacies to sell "emergency contraception" to a woman that sleeps around?

      Clarification/Follow-up by excon on 06/07/05 4:35 pm:

      Hello again, Its:

      I wonder if that same pharmacist has a moral objection to selling tobacco - a poison that kills virtually everybody who uses it.

      I'll bet he doesn't. Talk about hypocrisy!

      excon

      Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 06/08/05 7:06 am:
      That's true ex, but it's still his right to either sell or not sell isn't it?

      Clarification/Follow-up by Choux on 06/09/05 6:12 pm:
      It:: As to threatening violence upon me.....I REST MY CASE!!! You are ignorant.

      Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 06/10/05 7:19 am:
      Choux, operative word is "might," as in if you insult me one more time the imperfect human in me would love to slap you around, but would never do that to anyone. And if you (a) can't figure out that repeatedly insulting a person is let's say, not nice, and that (b) reaching through the screen to slap you is impossible, then you need to re-think who the ignorant one is.

 
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1. Hello Its: I believe in a free market - to a degree. Anyb...
 06/07/05 exconExcellent or Above Average Answer
2. Since when can't a women "sleep around" if she want...
 06/07/05 ChouxExcellent or Above Average Answer
3. Hello Itsdb, They don't have to like it, or approve of a...
 06/07/05 powderpuffExcellent or Above Average Answer
4. According to all that, if a woman is helped by the goverment...
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5. "Conscience clauses" are nothing new to medicine.Is a ...
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