Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has posted an article on the Ninth Circuit Court's decision to force pharmacies to stock and to sell the 'morning after' pill. Regardless of how you feel about this particular medicine, think about the government intrusion here. If abortion is against your religious belief and you are a pharmacist, you will be forced to sell something that is against your religion. Where is your religious freedom? If you are the business owner, the government is telling you what products you must sell.
According to the article, the legal case, brought by family-owned Ralph's Thriftway and two pharmacists employed elsewhere, has developed as follows
"Ralph's owners, Stormans Inc., and pharmacists Rhonda Mesler and Margo Thelen sought protection under the 1st Amendment right to free exercise of religion and won a temporary injunction from the U.S. District Court in Seattle pending trial on the constitutionality of the regulations. That order prevented state officials from penalizing pharmacists who refused to dispense Plan B as long as they referred consumers to a nearby pharmacy where it was available.
On Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the injunction, saying the district court was wrong in issuing it based on an erroneous finding that the rules violated the free exercise of religion clause of the U.S. Constitution."
The Ninth Circuit is the most overturned appellate court in this country. Hopefully, they will be overturned on this ruling. Freedom of religion is part of the foundations of our government. When you begin to remove the foundation of something, it collapses.
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