In the News
Pharmacy and Conscience
Links to reports and commentaries from other sources
- Paula Koch's testimony before the KS House of Representatives re: Health Professionals Conscience Clause, 26 March 2002 . Read how PFLI's Regional Coordinator for KS gave good solid evidence and testimony defending a pharmacist's "right to choose" to follow his or her properly formed conscience and not have pro-aborts impose their amoral views on pharmacists who can think and choose for themselves.
- Do pharmacists have a right to refuse to dispense a prescription based on personal beliefs? A paper presenting the pros and cons of a conscience clause and attendant ramifications. Its conclusion, while hopeful for pharmacists, nonetheless is qualified.
- Manitoba pharmacists win Conscience Clause
by Linda Wegner, Interim, July 2000
- Pharmacist sues over abortion pill By Mike Rutledge Cincinnati Post, 8/13/99
- ACLJ Files Suit Against K-Mart for Firing Pharmacist Who Refused to Dispense 'Morning After Pill' PR Business Wire 8/12/99
- Druggists debate the right to refuse The Record, Bergen, New Jersey 4/29/99
- Pro-life pharmacists seek right to refuse Rx's The Times of Trenton, New Jersey 4/5/99
- Abortion debate spreads to pharmacy counter The Philadelphia Inquirer 3/28/99
- Letter from Dr. Daniel A. Hussar to Mr. Robert J. Rosenthal, editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer 3/31/99
- A new pharmacy ethic By Karen Brauer, R.Ph. Life Advocate March / April 1998
- Abortion Fight Reaches Drugstore Counter The Salt Lake Tribune 1/18/98
- Summary of APhA Committee Discussion Read APhA discussion prior to their adopting their model of the conscience clause in a watered-down version in March 1998. While there is much good discussion in the paper the reasoning is flawed and fully accepts the "contraceptive mentality" as well as the "abortion mentality."
- Pharmacy has a Conscience Problem