The Washington Board of Pharmacy voted 3-2 to draft a new pharmacy rule, and no longer require pharmacies to provide the medications you need, including emergency contraception, without hassle, delay or judgment.

The rules that we worked so hard to pass in 2007 that require pharmacies to fill patients' prescriptions on site and on time, regardless of an individual pharmacist's personal beliefs, have been challenged in court by anti-choice activists. That case has been put on hold because the state sided with the anti-choice plaintiffs and filed a motion to delay the trial to give the Pharmacy Board time to change the rules in question and allow pharmacists to refuse to fill a prescription and refer patients elsewhere.

Your access to health care should not be based on whether a pharmacist thinks the medication your doctor prescribes is right or wrong!