[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: MI pharmacist says no, Target fires him; SD abortoholics seek to turn back clock on rights

Tue Feb 5 13:07:48 MST 2008

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Brian Bundy's Courage

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February 4, 2008

Brian Bundy is a Michigan pharmacist who has refused to dispense the 
abortive "morning after pill." In fact he has taken his refusal so 
seriously that when Target fired him he chose to sue them because he 
believes that Target knew that his Christian faith would not permit him 
to dispense abortive medicines. In fact he says they knew this when they 
hired him.

Many in the pro-life movement are praising Bundy, claiming quite 
accurately that this case could bring national attention to the fact 
that the pills do in fact have the potential to abort children during 
their first days of life.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this current case is how the 
pro-aborts are handling it. A Flint, Michigan newspaper 
<http://www.ippf.org/en/News/Intl+news/Pill+case+could+be+a+landmark.htm> 
quotes Jim Richardson of Planned Parenthood of East Central Michigan:

    Absolutely we should all pay very close attention to any kinds of
    efforts that the extremists are using to impose their religious
    beliefs over the beliefs of others and this is one of those cases.

Say what? Since when it is a statement of religious extremism to 
recognize the biological fact that a preborn child's life begins at the 
beginning and that chemicals that take that life are abortive? That is 
science, my friend, not religious extremism.

But to my mind the most dangerous statement pro-abort Richardson makes 
is this one:

    Pharmacists should not stand in the way of a woman having access to
    medications that are prescribed.

*Medications *... think about that word.

Medicine is defined in /Webster's Dictionary/ as "a substance or 
preparation used in treating disease." The morning after pill, like its 
precursor, the birth control pill, is not taken to treat a disease, but 
rather to provide "protection" so that sexual acts will allegedly not 
result in babies. Such behavior is not related to disease of the 
physical type, but rather reflects a moral condition in need of 
spiritual healing. If a man and a woman are not willing to accept God's 
gift of a child, then they should abstain! 

It is my humble opinion that in this case, as in all others like it over 
the past 40 years, the forces who have structured the culture of death 
want all persons of reproductive age to look upon pregnancy as a 
disease, a preborn baby as a condition worse than cancer and birth 
control as the panacea that, if it fails, can be followed up by an 
abortion! This has created the cultural attitude we see today which 
dismisses Christian heroes by Brian Bundy as extremists while applauding 
the elimination of pregnancy by any means as a wholesome goal.

*Who indeed really is the extremist? *

Let us pray for Brian Bundy and all those like him who refuse to deny 
God by accommodating the evil that we know is abortion, be it chemical, 
medical or surgical. May Mr. Bundy's case receive the attention and 
the justice it deserves.

/This article is courtesy of the/ American Life League 
<http://www.all.org/>.
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http://www.dakotavoice.com/2008/02/bill-against-pharmacist-conscience.html

    Monday, February 04, 2008

      Bill Against Pharmacist Conscience Passes Committee
      <http://www.dakotavoice.com/2008/02/bill-against-pharmacist-conscience.html>

SB 164 <http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2008/Bills/SB164P.htm>, the 
bill which would remove the right of pharmacists to exercise their 
conscience in selling contraceptives, passed the state Senate Health and 
Human Services committee today, according to the Rapid City Journal 
<http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2008/02/04/news/top/doc47a74cd04b385615920118.txt>. 

Democrat Senator Tom Katus of Rapid City, who is on the committee, voted 
in favor.

The article included a statement from one of the sponsors:

    Sen. Ed Olson, R-Mitchell, the sponsor of the bill, said it's only
    purpose was to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

Really? Women can't get contraceptives elsewhere, like from another 
pharmacist, or order them through the mail?

The currently existing 
<http://legis.state.sd.us/statutes/DisplayStatute.aspx?Statute=36-11-70&Type=Statute> 
moral exception granted to pharmacists is based on language which 
specifies drugs which may be used to kill someone or cause an abortion. 
Since a number of oral contraceptives can prevent the implantation of a 
new human being into the uterus of its mother, this moral clause 
includes some oral contraceptives.

As I've pointed out before 
<http://www.dakotavoice.com/2008/02/catholic-advocate-network-opposes.html>, 
this bill also attempts to redefine the meaning of "unborn child" 
according to South Dakota law.

I'd also like to hear Senator Olson's (or someone's) explanation of how 
a pharmacist who owns his own store or works for a private company can 
be interpreted to be a "government entity," since the language of the 
bill says it wants to stop "government intrusions" by "government entities."

*Or is this simply an attempt to force one person's morality on another 
by forcing them to choose between their job and following their conscience?*

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