Olympia Pharmacy boycotted for refusing to stock Plan B
Boycott brews over grocer's Plan B stand
By Brad Shannon
OLYMPIA (The Olympian)- A new front is opening in the battle over a woman's access to emergency contraception, pitting activists against one of the city's most visible grocery chains.
Owners of Ralph's Thriftway, which has a pharmacy in its east-side location, say flatly they won't stock the Plan B morning-after pill on moral grounds.
"I don't want to get into a detailed debate," Kevin Stormans, one of the co-owners of Ralph's and Bayview Thriftways, said in an interview Tuesday. "I just think people have to choose when they believe life begins. There are questions about this drug on that issue."
More than a dozen activists, who had a planning session Monday evening, say they hope to launch a monthlong boycott of the two stores in July to try to change the decision by Stormans Inc., a fourth-generation family-owned enterprise that includes coffee and sandwich franchises.
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