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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Yes! Take that, Stormans/Ralph's Thriftway!

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COMMENTS: 
*  Religion should never be used to deny others their rights.
*  GOOD! Your religion belongs in your church or in your home! NOT your job!
*  Good, because if you don't stop this, then religious nuts will start denying people Cancer Treatments, and everything else they just decided they don't like. Some of the nut case cults, don't want you to even get antibiotics or blood products. Get rid of the "moral terrorist nut cases". Yes, it can go that far. Let Scientology start saying that people don't need any anti depressants, or the Jehovah's will start denying blood products to hemophiliacs. I don't need the snake kissers, saying all they need to do is pray over you and you're cured
*  So many Christians wanting special rights to exempt them from the law..
*  I have a religious objection to religion.
*   Just give it up already...your religion doesn't matter when you serve the public
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Pharmacy owners cannot cite religion to deny medicine: U.S. appeals court
By Dan Levine, July 23, 2015

The state of Washington can require a pharmacy to deliver medicine even if the pharmacy's owner has a religious objection, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, the latest in a series of judgements on whether religious believers can opt out of providing services.

The ruling, from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, came in a case filed by pharmacists who objected to delivering emergency contraceptives. The 9th Circuit overturned a lower court that had said the rules were unconstitutional.

The U.S. Supreme Court last year allowed closely held corporations to seek exemptions from the Obamacare health law's contraception requirement.

In Washington, the state permits a religiously objecting individual pharmacist to deny medicine, so long as another pharmacist working there provides timely delivery. The rules require a pharmacy to deliver all medicine, even if the owner objects.

A unanimous three-judge 9th Circuit panel on Thursday decided that the rules are constitutional because they rationally further the state's interest in patient safety. Speed is particularly important considering the time-sensitive nature of emergency contraception, the court said.

"The time taken to travel to another pharmacy, especially in rural areas where pharmacies are sparse, may reduce the efficacy of those drugs," wrote Judge Susan Graber.

Representatives for the plaintiffs and Washington State's attorney general office could not immediately be reached for comment.
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