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[desertvixen]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11134317/

Wal-Mart sued over access to contraception
Three Mass. women look to force retail giant to stock morning after pill

BOSTON - Backed by abortion rights groups, three Massachusetts women sued Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Wednesday, accusing the retail giant of violating a state regulation by failing to stock emergency contraception pills in its pharmacies.

The lawsuit, filed in state court, seeks to force the company to carry the morning-after pill in its 44 Wal-Marts and four Sam Club stores in Massachusetts.

The plaintiffs argued that state policy requires pharmacies to provide all "commonly prescribed medicines."

Wal-Mart carries the morning-after pill in Illinois only, where it is required under state law, said Dan Fogleman, a spokesman for Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart.

Fogleman said the company "chooses not to carry many products for business reasons." He would not elaborate. But in a letter to a lawyer for the plaintiffs, a Wal-Mart attorney said the store chain does not regard the drug as "commonly prescribed."

CVS Corp., the state's largest pharmacy chain, stocks the pill at all of its drugstores.

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I wish them luck.

DV

Comments

[lonelydolly.livejournal.com]

Massachusetts is really full of smart people, lol....the health care issue there is a good one, (health spending accounts, via your tax refunds if you are uncovered...)and everyone there seems to really be on the ball.
Shame on the pharmacy's who think they are above the law. People in this country are so quick to pass judgment and their beliefs over the LAW, that it is getting out of hand. I hope they are held accountable.

[rockahulababy.livejournal.com]

Don't forget Illinois!

And let's hope they also win their case in federal court...

[lonelydolly.livejournal.com]

Yes, Illinois also! Mostly I was just being sarcastic because I want to live in Massachusetts, lol.....But when we were there in November, the difference in attitudes from conservative Buffalo were remarkable. Women in political positions makes the difference I guess. (Sorry Hillary, lol.....)At any rate, I do hope they win their cases. My life was a lot different before the last election, when there was hope.....you guy's might not know this, but at that time I had gone back to school for social work so that I could run the clinic I worked at. With a lot of thinking on it, we decided that until something changes it won't be feasible to count on having a career in Women's Reproductive Health care. And this is case in point...what is the world coming to when a woman can't even pick up a damn prescription. I was honestly tired of fighting. It became less about the care of women and all about politics. What happens when the people who are supposed to be giving patient care are spending all their time involved in politics? That has been a big pet peeve of mine for a long time. I know how to run and operate an abortion clinic with my eyes closed, but I don't know how to be a politician or a lobbyist. So my hat's off to the women who are doing that, because it's brutal to try and but heads with the anti abortion extremists out there. Especially the ones in DC.