Walgreens Pharmacist: OK if Woman Bleeds to Death if She Might Have Had Abortion
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’} Did a Walgreens’ pharmacist put a woman’s life at risk because providing prescribed medication would have violated her “conscience”? It looks like it — in Idaho, a woman who needed Methergine to prevent or control uterine bleeding was denied the drug because the pharmacist thought that the woman might have had an abortion. Intelligent observers have long known that so-called “conscience clauses” which let pharmacists ignore their job and duty in order to avoid helping “unclean” women wouldn’t stop at just providing medications that might prevent or end pregnancies. No, they were bound to go much further because proponents of these “conscience clauses” want to go much, much further in their desire to deny equality to women. “Methergine is not an abortifacient and it serves multiple purposes in postpartum care,” the practitioner wrote in her co
