The latest store to have a pharmacist refuse to fill a woman's birth control prescription is Target.
A 26-year-old Missouri woman was refused EC when she handed her prescription to a pharmacist at a Target store in Fenton, MO, on September 30. The woman was told by the pharmacist, "I won't fill it. It's my right not to fill it." She was told that she could go to a local Walgreens instead. The woman said, "When the pharmacist told me she wouldn't [fill the prescription], I went from disbelief to shock to anger. I guess I'm still pretty angry. It seems unbelievable to me that a medical professional could/would deny access to a federally approved drug and impose their personal beliefs in a professional setting. I am also grateful that I did not need it filled at that time. I don't know how it would be if I had just been raped or if the condom broke and I was a feeling confusion and panic anyway -- and then was denied access and told to go across the street."
Message:
Why is Target supporting radical right bigotry against its own customers? How dare they tell us they won't fill our prescriptions because their pharmacists thinks we're sinners? Would they turn away Jews if their pharmacist were a conservative Catholic or Baptist? Would they turn away gays if their pharmacist thinks they're abominations? Would they turn away people with AIDS because, you know, they're hardly "innocent"?
DEMAND ANSWERS:
Target.Response@target.com
Susan Kahn, 1-612-761-6735
Cathy Wright, 1-612-761-6627 or 1-847-615-1538
Paula Thornton-Greear, 612-696-3400
Carolyn Brookter, 1-612-696-6557
Following in Target's footsteps to force their way into your sex life:
Duane Reade
Giant Food
Piggly Wiggly
Safeway
SEND A MESSAGE TO THE CORPORATIONS INVADING YOUR PRIVACY:
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/fillmypillsnow_dontknow2?rk=CpAkcI417R6IW
Get your ire pumped by reading more about this latest religious right outrage:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/target-now-saying-screw-you-if-their.html