This article came from Tennessee, but I beleive Illinois already has this law on the books...
Bill Would Give Pharmacists Right To Refuse Prescriptions
There's a move in the legislature to give state pharmacists the right to morally object to filling some prescriptions.
The bill would include any drug a pharmacist morally or religiously objects to.
Some critics say pharmacists could refuse to fill birth control medication or especially the morning after pill.
But the Republican legislator who introduced the bill says it's meant to give pharmacists the same rights as other health care professionals to refuse to fill a prescription for any medicines they feel violate their moral principles.
“Doctors and nurses have the same right. It seems right that as a health care professional, there are certain things that if they violate your conscience, you shouldn't have to do it. It’s the fair and right thing to do,” said Representative Glen Casada (R) of College Grove.
It's being called the Pharmacists Freedom of Conscience Act and it would protect pharmacists from liability or disciplinary measures if they refuse to fill a prescription for religious or moral reasons.
The bill faces an uphill fight on Capitol Hill, where many legislators think moral questions should be decided by a patient and their doctor.
A last minute glitch threatened to derail the bill because of a question of where the money to enforce it would come from, but legislators took care of the money problem by dropping TennCare enrollees from the measure.
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Frankly I really don't care what an individual pharmacy decides to do, however, if their policy is to not dispense birth control or morning after pills, then that sign should be clearly posted at the front door. I have read incidents of the prescriptions of women being taken and not given back.
But it makes me wonder, if these same pharacists that don't dispence birth control, also will dispence Viagra to unmarried men...