The editorial board of the Seattle Times believes that pharmacists should be COMPELLED to dispense contraceptives.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2017581754_edit24pharmacy.html
Compelled. People are ignorant of reality when they start wanting others to be compelled to do something. Or when they want something banned. Or when they want something mandated.
If you compell a Pharmacist to sell something that he is morally against, where does it stop?
This editorial mentions (in a roundabout way) that the state's interest in this is that more pregnancies could be prevented by having more access to these contraceptives. So money, as it always does, is the root of the issue?
If that is really the case, I say we COMPELL all people from having sex until they are 30. At that time they should be well enough along in whatever career they choose, that if they do get pregnant they can take care of the child, without making me, a taxpayer, have to pay for the child.
When people start asking the government to compell, ban or mandate something they are taking the easy/cowards way out. Education, education, education is the answer. It's a slow process but it is infinitely better than forcing a change in a specific behavior.
Interesting debate. Depending on where the pharmacist stands on the "personhood" issue, this compulsion would essentially make them complicit in abortion. I can see why some of them would make a fuss.
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