Illinois: Gov Digs In As Foes Attack Pharmacy Rule
It's bad enough that our doctors and our health care choices are questioned and countermanded every day by non medical idiots in insurance companies, but to have some pharmacist (oh boy...a bachelor's degree) or pharm tech (for which you need NO specified training) decide what's best for me because I'm a woman and their religious beliefs overrule my right and my health? Good on you, Illinois Governor Blagojevich! It's about bloody time that those zealots were put in their places. Their right to their beliefs ENDS at my right to health care that *I* choose. If their religious beliefs are so strong, they should FIND ANOTHER JOB!
Illinois: Gov Digs In As Foes Attack Pharmacy Rule: "Both sides are preparing for what may turn into a legal battle over Gov. Blagojevich's order that pharmacists dispense contraceptives, even those that some pharmacists say kill embryos.
The Illinois Pharmacists Association asked Blagojevich to rescind his order. State Rep. Ron Stephens, a Downstate pharmacist, said, "I will not abide by it." The conservative Family PAC is urging pharmacists to ignore the order. And Catholic Bishop Thomas Paprocki implored Blagojevich from the pulpit to rescind the order.
The governor is standing firm.
On Monday, he warned Family PAC Director Paul Caprio the state would impose "significant penalties" on any pharmacy that ignores the order.
"In your call to pharmacists urging them to violate the emergency rule I issued, you neglected to remind them of the penalties their employers will face if they deny a woman her right to health care," Blagojevich wrote Caprio. Those penalties range from fines to losing their licenses, Blagojevich said.