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Feb 16 13:54 UTC 2006

I wonder if Walmart pharmacists are now going to be required by the 
state of Massachusetts to dispense morning-after pills, even if they 
have ethical reasons not to do so?  As I found out for the last Agora, 
when the topic was Target pharmacies and the morning-after pill, the 
APhA explicitly expects pharmacists to make individual ethical 
decisions on this topic.  I wonder if the Massachusetts Board of 
Registration in Pharmacy (which itself is most likely made up of 
pharmacists) is overruling this component of the APhA?

If so, I wonder what other medical decisions and procedures, and 
ethical issues, are being mandated by the State of Massachusetts?

If a state can mandate that abortion pills must mandatorily be 
distributed by doctors (including pharmacists), I wonder if it can also 
mandate that doctors must perform surgical abortions.

I disagree with the decision of the Massachusetts Board of Registration 
in Pharmacy because of my position against abortion.  I hope their 
decision is overturned, or if it isn't, that it doesn't go further than 
that.