A new favorite part of the Choice News Weekly is when we take a moment to check in with our good friend Karen Brauer, pharmacist and president of Pharmacists for Life International. She's emerging as the Anne Coulter of the pharmacist refusal issue, and she's always got something to say. This week, we find Ms. Brauer in the New Jersey Ledger talking about her willingness to withhold emergency contraception, a safe and legal medication that can prevent unintended pregnancies and thus the need for abortion when taken with 72 hours of unprotected sex. These instances include, of course, those in which women have become pregnant as a result of incest, rape, or other sexual assault. An overwhelming majority of compassionate, law-abiding pharmacists will fill prescriptions issued to women by their physicians. But Ms. Brauer sees it a little differently. "Our job is to prevent possible harm. You can't pretend it's okay to go out and have sex with multiple partners." Mind you, it's been a few years since most of us have been in school, but it still only takes one, right? All joking aside, Ms. Brauer and the organization she runs are all too comfortable making these sorts of moral judgments about women holding prescriptions for birth control, with precious little actual knowledge of their lives and circumstances. Whether a woman's life or health could be endangered by a pregnancy, whether she's simply unprepared to have children, or she's become pregnant against her will - none of these things seem to matter to Ms. Brauer as she stands behind the counter, and truly, none of them are any of her business.
More joys of not taking care of business with the proper care. HHmmppphhh people do you have to be so stupid and inconsiderent.
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