Pharmasist Phired.

World Net Daily is reporting that Walgreens has put 4 pharmacist on unpaid leave for refusing to dispense the "Plan B Morning After Pill". Walgreens position is that in states where there is a right to conscience, the pharmacist can refuse to dispense the "Plan B Morning After Pill" (such as Missouri). In Illinois where these pharmacist live, the state has taken a more stringent approach.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich filed an emergency rule April 1 requiring pharmacies to honor all Food and Drug Administration-approved contraception prescriptions. The rule is the only one of its kind in the U.S. and became permanent on Aug. 1.

"If a woman has a prescription for contraceptives, they ought to be filling that," Blagojevich told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, adding that the pharmacists' suspensions were unfortunate but not as important as protecting women's rights.

"[Pharmacists] certainly have the right to their personal opinions, but that cannot get in the way of a woman's right to get the care that her doctor has prescribed for her," Blagojevich spokeswoman Abby Ottenhoff said. "If it is approved by the FDA and approved by a doctor, it is not a pharmacist's place to deny access."

Ottenhoff noted the law does provide an exception – pharmacies can either sell the Plan B pill along with any other contraceptives they offer or they can refuse to sell any contraceptives at all.

Illinois is the only state in the union that requires a pharmacy to carry either all approved contraceptives or none at all as well as to disallow a pharmacist the right to refuse for reasons of conscience. So a pharmacy, that feels one contraceptive drug is dangerous and doesn't want to risk the health of there customers, is required to either dispense the drug, or stop carrying all contraceptives.

This again goes to a point that I have made before. That some people, in there drive to push an agenda, (in this case abortion) make bad laws and policies which have unintended consequences.
Please offer up your prayers for these pharmacists and that the local diocese, which is starting a boycott of Walgreens pharmacies until these 4 individuals are rehired, is successful.