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/URGENT ALERT!/

*16 April 2009*

*AB 67 Denies Conscientious Objection*

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Sacramento -- AB 67,* /Pharmacy Patient Protection Act of 2008/* by Assemblyman Pedro Nava (D- Santa Barbara) 
sets its sights on pharmacists in the latest attempt to enmesh members of the medical profession in abortion.  AB 67 will 
be heard in the Assembly Business and Professions Committee next Tuesday, April 21, *but your input is needed 
by this Friday (tomorrow) to be acknowledged in the bill analysis*. Please take immediate action below to protect the 
right of pharmacists to say "No" to abortion. Your recent efforts helped stop AB 120 and SB 374, which attacked doctors 
and nurses. Let's do it again for the pharmacists and protect all members of the medical profession. 

*_WHAT'S WRONG WITH AB 67?_*

AB 67 would deny pharmacists the right of refusing involvement with 
chemical abortions on moral or religious grounds currently protected by 
the California Constitution. Under threat of suspending their license, 
AB 67 would force ethical pharmacists to fill
a Plan B prescription, which kills a human embryo, the smallest and 
youngest of human beings. Assemblyman Pedro Nava is attempting to 
redefine the state Constitution, Section 4 of Article 1, with this 
heavy-handed unconstitutional bill that reads:

     "A pharmacist shall dispense prescriptions irrespective of the pharmacist's ethical, moral, or religious   
       objections. The liberty of conscience, within the meaning of Section 4 of Article I of the California 
      Constitution, shall not be lawful grounds for a pharmacist to fail to dispense a prescription.

The California Constitution, Section 4 of Article I states: 

"Free exercise and enjoyment of religion without discrimination or preference are guaranteed. This liberty 
of conscience does not excuse acts that are licentious or inconsistent with the peace or safety of the State."

Don't let pro-abortion advocates come into the medical community through 
the pharmacy back door.

 


  /_TAKE ACTION!

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*Please contact Assemblyman Pedro Nava* and express your opposition to 
AB 67 and its unjustifiable intrusion into the ethics of the pharmacist 
profession. *Ask him to withdraw AB 67*.

 

*First:* Send your statement *Opposing AB 67 *(organizations please use 
letterhead) to Assemblyman Pedro Nava, State Capitol, Room 2148, 
Sacramento, CA  95814; 916-319-2035, fax 916-319-2135 *with copy* *to 
the* *Assembly Republican Caucus*, Attn: Ted Blanchard, 916-916-319-3902 
or by e-mail T.Blanchard at asm.ca.gov <mailto:T.Blanchard at asm.ca.gov>   
*Caucus copy must be received by Friday (tomorrow) to be entered into 
the bill analysis. This is urgent.*

 

*Next:* Send to the *Business and Professions Committee*. Their phone is 
*916-319-20xx*, fax *-21xx* where xx is their Assembly District (AD). 
(Chair) Mary Hayashi (32); (Vice-Chair) Bill Emmerson* *(63); Connie 
Conway (34); Mike Eng (49); Edward Hernandez (57); Pedro Nava (35); 
Roger Niello (05); John Perez (14); Curren Price (51); Ira Ruskin (21); 
and Cameron Smyth (38).

 

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