URGENT
– ACTION NEEDED
Re:
WASHINGTON STATE PHARMACIST RIGHTS of CONSCIENCE
Note:
Supporters who may belong to a supportive faith community or Church,
please encourage their involvement. For our Catholic
supporters, please be aware that the attached flyer has been approved
by the Washington
State Catholic Conference
for distribution at your parishes. Please contact your Pastor,
if you would like to distribute these flyers in your bulletins, at
Church events, etc. Please encourage your Pro-life groups to
join our efforts! Feel free to contact
us
if you need assistance.
Dear
friends,
The
right to conscience for Washington pharmacists is in the final stages
of being denied! Shall extremists hijack our profession??!!
Are we
slaves to the anti-life whims of a small minority??
Please
make every effort to attend the Board of Pharmacy Public Testimony
Rules Hearing on Thursday, March 29th at 9:15AM PST in
Renton, WA.
****Flyer
attached with more details****
Numbers will count!
Strong presence at the Board hearing is needed to prevent this draft rule from becoming official.
If the Draft
Rule becomes official it...
Gives the Board of Pharmacy authority to suspend, fine and/or remove the license of pharmacies who do not fill, on demand, drugs that cause abortions and other drugs that ever become "legal" to use i.e. Physician Assisted Suicide, etc.
Could cause pharmacies to discriminate against employing any pharmacists unable to fill medications that cause abortions.
Your
prayers and presence are needed!
Background:
A
national effort to silence conscience was started by certain interest
groups and However, these groups & the media have
portrayed the issue to be about Plan B (a.k.a. scientifically
incorrect euphemisms "morning-after-pill" or "emergency
contraception"). Despite excess accessibility of Plan B,
via Planned Parenthood or internet overnight delivery, dispensing at
hospitals, doctors' offices, clinics, pharmacies, high schools, &
its recent approval to be sold Over-The-Counter (without a
physician's prescription), these groups are trying to impose their
will on WA pharmacists to dispense Plan B, on demand, without
question or any kind of professional personal judgment.
The
manufacturer states that Plan B can prevent implantation (of the
human embryo to the womb), thus, causing a chemical abortion.
Current Washington State Law states, that no person may be required,
in any circumstances to participate in the performance of an
abortion, if such person objects to so doing. Furthermore, no
person may be discriminated against in employment because of the
person's refusal to participate in the termination. (RCW 9.02.150)
Action Needed:
The
WA State Board of Pharmacy composed a Draft Rule that impinges on
this right, for WA pharmacists. However, before this Draft can
become official, a Hearing needs to be held, to consider public
concerns regarding this Draft.
Come,
support us in NUMBERS at this Hearing, whether or not you
testify.
WHO? Presence of all supportive family & friends, whether or not they testify.
Washington
Board of Pharmacy Public Rules Hearing
Thursday, March 29,
2007
9:15am
Renton Community Center
1715 Maple Valley
Highway
Renton, WA 98059
REJECT the Draft Rule proposal & SUPPORT a pharmacist's right to follow his/her conscience.
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Unable to
come? Submit comments via e-mail: wsbop@doh.wa.gov,
fax: (360) 586-4359,
www3.doh.wa.gov/policyreview
or www.HumanRightToConscience.com
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