“They’re putting their personal beliefs ahead of someone’s health care.”
The war on reproductive rights in the United States has many fronts: denial of abortions, the global gag rule, the shackling of incarcerated pregnant women in labor, among others. Ever increasingly, yet another battle line has come to the fore—women are being denied legal prescriptions for the morning-after pill and a pill for medical abortion based on pharmacists’ religious beliefs. This week, one woman has chosen to fight back.
Andrea Anderson, 39, whose doctor prescribed an emergency contraceptive that needs to be taken within five days to be effective, was denied her prescription at a rural Minnesota Thrifty White Pharmacy on January 21. The pharmacist, George Badeaux, told her “he would be unable to fill her prescription,” Badeaux told Anderson he would not give her the medication due to “personal reasons” and his “beliefs.” , “and all of a sudden it clicked.
Anderson then tried to obtain her prescription at a CVS. The pharmacist there told her that neither the CVS nor a Walgreens more than 50 miles away carried the pill. To be sure, Anderson called the Walgreens herself and discovered they did, in fact, have what she needed. She then made a three-hour trip to the pharmacy in white-out snow conditions.
A lawsuit filed Monday by a St. Paul nonprofit called Gender Justice alleges that the Thrifty White and the CVS discriminated against Anderson “based on her sex.
“When pharmacists refuse to fill a prescription due to their personal beliefs, refuse to follow the rules of the Pharmacy Board and have a backup referral … they’re violating those rights,” Gender Justice Executive Director Megan Peterson
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