This letter appeared in the Oshkosh Northwestern this morning:
Not all pharmacists sign contraceptive pledge
My NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) friends and I have asked pharmacists in Oshkosh pharmacies to sign a pledge that reads: “I, (the pharmacist), am giving my personal assurance as your pharmacist that I will fill every woman’s prescription for contraception, every time. When a woman and her doctor have made the decision that a prescription for contraception is in her best interest, I respect their decision.”
Ken Bressers of Omro; Jennifer L. Villeneuve of Walgreen’s, Murdock Avenue; and James Bartelt of Schultz, Main Street, had no concerns when they signed the pledge. I personally want to thank them!
I thank Tom Ehrhardt at Aurora Pharmacy and Michael Maloney at the Kmart Pharmacy on Koeller Street who signed the pledge for themselves. Other pharmacists who would not sign it worked at Aurora on Westhaven Avenue and Bowen Street, Morton’s and Shopko on Koeller Street, Morton’s on 9th Avenue, Wal-Mart, and Walgreen’s on 9th Avenue, Koeller Avenue and Emmers Lane. They would send a patient to another pharmacy if they could not in good conscience fill the prescription. However Wal-Mart does not carry the preventative “morning after pill.”
The results indicate that Omro Pharmacy, Walgreen’s on Murdock Avenue or Schultz’s on Main Street guarantee that birth control prescriptions will be filled immediately. Tom Ehrhardt at Aurora Pharmacy and Michael Maloney at the Kmart, both on Koeller Street would be happy to fill your prescription.
If you would like to be listed as someone who would pledge to fill all birth control prescriptions, please send your name, your pharmacy’s name, address and telephone number to me at donley@athenet.net by July 31.
Corrine R. Donley Oshkosh
http://www.wisinfo.com/northwestern/news/opinion/stories/opinion_21967902.shtml
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