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Choice Headlines

8/25/2008
Bush administration proposal is an attack on reproductive health

8/22/2008
The real agenda: family planning

8/11/2008
Birth Control: They're at it again

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Press Releases

8/29/2008
Presidential Candidate John McCain Selects Anti-Choice Running Mate

8/23/2008
NARAL Pro-Choice Washington Responds to Biden V.P. Pick

8/21/2008
Bush Administration Draft Rule Still Raises Questions About Access to Birth Control

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Disappointing decision over Plan B drugs

Posted: 11/16/2007

SEATTLE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
 
A federal judge's decision to block at least temporarily Washington's new rules requiring pharmacists to dispense a controversial emergency contraceptive is disappointing.

The move should not stand as a value of Washington state, that a pharmacist can interfere in a medical decision already made between a doctor and a patient. Judge Ronald B. Leighton issued the injunction in a lawsuit brought by Ralph's Thriftway in Olympia and pharmacists who do not want to be forced to dispense the drug often referred to as "Plan B." When taken within 72 hours of intercourse, the medication can prevent ovulation or fertilization but it also can prevent implantation of a fertilized egg. That does not meet a legal definition of abortion except in the minds of some pharmacists.

 

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