Targetting Target

[avram]

Target has a policy of allowing its pharmacists to refuse, on religious grounds, to fill prescriptions for “Plan B” contraceptives. Sorry about that link; the blog entry seems to have been written by somebody angered beyond the point of thinking clearly. (The pharmacists aren’t refusing because they think the customer is a sinner, but because they think the product is sinful. Get angry, sure, but don’t take it so personally.)

Anyway, for some reason this is the only such refusal Target allows. If you’re a pharmacist at Target and your religion forbids you from dispensing any other products, you’re out of luck. The legal implications of that could get interesting. And it’s yet more evidence that our culture’s seeming religious arguments are really about sex.

Planned Parenthood has a calmer press release, but it lacks the detail that Target has a special policy just for one drug.

Comments

[gentlyepigrams]

I've been watching this because I put in my prescriptions at Target several months ago. I may have to move them.