[Pflienews] PFLI E-News Update: WI to hold hearings for anti-pharmacist mandate

Tue Mar 4 08:08:24 MST 2008

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 4 Mar 2008 AD #2
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    *Senate health committee to hold *

    *public hearing Wednesday on *

    *Chemical Abortion Pharmacist Mandate*

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The Senate Committee on Health, Human Services, Insurance, and Job 
Creation, chaired by Senator Jon Erpenbach (D-Madison), will hold a 
public hearing this *Wednesday, March 5*, on *Senate Bill (SB) 232*. The 
so-called "Birth Control Protection Act" would force all licensed 
Wisconsin pharmacists, regardless of their medical and moral judgment, 
to dispense the morning-after pill and other FDA-approved 
abortion-causing contraceptive drugs. The legislation also redefines the 
statutory definition of abortion to /exclude/ all FDA-approved 
contraceptive drugs and devices. The hearing will be held in *Room 411 
South* of the *state Capitol building* at *10 a.m*.

Under the provisions of SB 232, /"(e)very pharmacist has a duty to 
promptly dispense a valid prescription for any federal food and drug 
administration-approved contraceptive, unless such a prescription is 
contraindicated for a particular patient...'Abortion' does not include 
the use, administration, delivery, prescribing, or dispensing of any 
federal-food-and-drug-administration-approved contraceptive."/

For a copy of the bill, please click here: 
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2007/data/SB-232.pdf

*Pro-Life Wisconsin will testify in opposition to SB 232 at the *

*public hearing and we encourage you to register against *

*or speak against the bill.*

If you cannot make it to Madison on Wednesday, please call or email your 
state senator and state representative and urge them to oppose SB 232 
and its identical companion bill Assembly Bill (AB) 467. Please click 
here for contact information for your state legislators: 
http://waml.legis.state.wi.us/

Of course, access to birth control needs no protection at all. Birth 
control is everywhere -- even the morning-after pill is now accessible 
over the counter for those aged 18 and over. *What this _counterfactual_ 
and _unconstitutional_ bill is really about is forcing the pharmacy 
industry to cast aside any* *moral or medical qualms about birth control 
and do the bidding of the birth control industry*.

Counterfactual because it is a medical fact that the morning-after pill 
(a high dosage of the birth control pill) and most, if not all, birth 
control drugs and devices including the intrauterine device (IUD), 
Depo-Provera, Norplant, the Patch, and the Pill can act to /terminate/ a 
pregnancy by chemically altering the lining of the uterus (endometrium) 
so that a newly conceived child (human embryo) is unable to implant in 
the womb, thus starving and dying. *_This mechanism of action is termed 
a pre-implantation chemical abortion_*. Excluding the morning-after pill 
and other abortifacient birth control drugs from the legal definition of 
abortion does not change the fact that they can and do cause early 
chemical abortions.

Unconstitutional because the First Amendment to the United States 
Constitution guarantees the right to freely exercise one's religious 
convictions. And our Wisconsin Constitution expressly protects the 
rights of conscience. *_Under Article 1, Section 18, of our state 
constitution, "any control of, or interference with, the rights of 
conscience" shall not be permitted_*.

Pharmacists, like doctors and nurses, are valued members of the 
professional health care team who should not be forced to choose between 
their consciences and their livelihoods. We must not force pharmacists 
to participate in what they know to be the killing of another person. 
Pro-Life Wisconsin will work hard to block this outrageous and dangerous 
legislation.

*Please stand up for Wisconsin's pro-life pharmacists and embryonic 
babies, both of whom are under constant attack. *

*Thank you and God bless you!*

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