On a 5-1 vote, the board voted Thursday to stop its process of drafting a rule change that could have allowed pharmacists to refer patients to another pharmacy for "time-sensitive" medication, including Plan B and hundreds of other drugs. Individual pharmacists can still refuse to fill a prescription on moral grounds, but patients must receive their prescription onsite without delay.
Pharmacists who oppose the Plan B drug have sued the state, but that lawsuit was delayed when the board decided over the summer to begin a new rulemaking process.
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So the Pharmacy board took the approach of avoiding the greenmail suit? Sounds about right.
What will Storman's do for publicity now? Refuse to sell insulin?
They can always jump on the praying in the end zone by a kid that already figured he can do something else to honor his God.
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