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to all women out there!
Jul. 28th, 2005 09:46 amAgain, I tend to refrain from politics in this journal, but I think this is something that all women (and hopefully men will support the women on this) should respond to.
I already posted this in my regular journal - so I apologize if you're seeing it twice, but that's how important this issue is to me.
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To all the woman on my list in the United States, whether you are Republican or Democrat, Pro-Life or Pro-Choice...I think it's important to read what's going on regarding BIRTH CONTROL. Nothing to do with abortion. Just that pill that a lot of us go on, and some of us not even because we're having sex so much as health reasons...
So yeah, read and take action (I already have):
(info via NARAL)
It's official: Americans can no longer take prescription birth control for granted. Yesterday, Monday, July 25, anti-choice representatives in the U.S. House made it clear that they support pharmacies that refuse to fill birth-control prescriptions - and that women have no right to birth control.
The radical right's campaign to stop birth control: The House Small Business Committee held a hearing on whether pharmacies should be allowed to refuse to fill women's prescriptions. Anti-choice Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told a witness, who had been denied birth control and emergency contraception by her pharmacist, that she had no "right" to her prescriptions -she only believed she did. Anti-choice Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO) told a witness whose prescription had also been rejected by a hostile pharmacist, that her "minor inconvenience" - that is, risking an unintended pregnancy - was nothing compared to the "conscience" of a pharmacist.
The right's anti-birth control campaign doesn't stop in Washington, DC. Across the country, the radical right has engaged pharmacies in its campaign to block women's access to birth control. Women like Julee Lacey, a 32-year-old married mother of two and first-grade teacher from Texas, are being turned away by vigilante pharmacists who think it's their job to dispense morals instead of medicine.
Now, as many as 20 states officially protect pharmacists like Karen Brauer, president of Pharmacists for Life, who says she'd lecture women customers to get off the pill. Other states are pursuing an even more aggressive strategy. Just last month Wisconsin passed a bill to block state universities from filling birth control prescriptions.
What you can do: Tell your Member of Congress that you expect him or her to stand up for you - not right-wing pharmacies that oppose birth control.
http://prochoiceaction.org/campaign/house_alpha_072605/step1.tcl
This is just downright scary - and we're the only ones who can make a difference because Lord knows politicians won't do anything unless they fear being voted out. I don't understand how a pharmacist's morals at their JOB is more important than a woman's right to medication (and it *is* medication for some women) - it's honestly like...I forget where I saw this analogy, but someone said: It's like being a butcher and then trying to force your veganism on everyone else - not selling them their beef, even though you're a freaking butcher, because it's against your moral code.
So do something, please! Pass this information onto others and help make a difference.
I already posted this in my regular journal - so I apologize if you're seeing it twice, but that's how important this issue is to me.
**
To all the woman on my list in the United States, whether you are Republican or Democrat, Pro-Life or Pro-Choice...I think it's important to read what's going on regarding BIRTH CONTROL. Nothing to do with abortion. Just that pill that a lot of us go on, and some of us not even because we're having sex so much as health reasons...
So yeah, read and take action (I already have):
(info via NARAL)
It's official: Americans can no longer take prescription birth control for granted. Yesterday, Monday, July 25, anti-choice representatives in the U.S. House made it clear that they support pharmacies that refuse to fill birth-control prescriptions - and that women have no right to birth control.
The radical right's campaign to stop birth control: The House Small Business Committee held a hearing on whether pharmacies should be allowed to refuse to fill women's prescriptions. Anti-choice Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told a witness, who had been denied birth control and emergency contraception by her pharmacist, that she had no "right" to her prescriptions -she only believed she did. Anti-choice Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO) told a witness whose prescription had also been rejected by a hostile pharmacist, that her "minor inconvenience" - that is, risking an unintended pregnancy - was nothing compared to the "conscience" of a pharmacist.
The right's anti-birth control campaign doesn't stop in Washington, DC. Across the country, the radical right has engaged pharmacies in its campaign to block women's access to birth control. Women like Julee Lacey, a 32-year-old married mother of two and first-grade teacher from Texas, are being turned away by vigilante pharmacists who think it's their job to dispense morals instead of medicine.
Now, as many as 20 states officially protect pharmacists like Karen Brauer, president of Pharmacists for Life, who says she'd lecture women customers to get off the pill. Other states are pursuing an even more aggressive strategy. Just last month Wisconsin passed a bill to block state universities from filling birth control prescriptions.
What you can do: Tell your Member of Congress that you expect him or her to stand up for you - not right-wing pharmacies that oppose birth control.
http://prochoiceaction.org/campaign/house_alpha_072605/step1.tcl
This is just downright scary - and we're the only ones who can make a difference because Lord knows politicians won't do anything unless they fear being voted out. I don't understand how a pharmacist's morals at their JOB is more important than a woman's right to medication (and it *is* medication for some women) - it's honestly like...I forget where I saw this analogy, but someone said: It's like being a butcher and then trying to force your veganism on everyone else - not selling them their beef, even though you're a freaking butcher, because it's against your moral code.
So do something, please! Pass this information onto others and help make a difference.
