When State Law Puts Private Merchants in Legal Jeopardy -- SB 30 and 'Emergency Contraceptives'

The NH House voted on March 8 not to allow for licensed pharmacists to decline requests for purchase of the "morning after pill". Instead, opponents of amending SB 30 (passed in 2005) claimed that pharmacists already have the voluntary right NOT to take the state-run training program that would allow them to sell to anyone who wanted to purchase the possibly abortive pills (the pro-abortion politicians in Concord will not admit that the "morning after pill" can kill a conceived fetus, but in most cases, in fact, that is exactly what it does.)

The trouble is that there is not a legal procedure to protect any pharmacist who opts not to take the training program, and who could be later taken to court for making that decision. A woman desiring the morning after pill in order to "prevent an unwanted pregnancy" up to 72 hours after the act of sexual intercourse, could, clearly, attempt to bring suit against a pharmacist who opted not to take the training course, and who later faced her with the denail of her sale.

This segment from "Against the Grain" deals with that subject.