Sure they have a right. But, I wish a few places would exesize that right by refusing to fill viagra 'scripts or similar, then maybe all this silliness would stop.

I completely disagree since in refusing to fill a prescription for the pill, a pharmacist is disregarding the orders of a doctor. You would think it was wrong if a doctor refused to fill a prescription for a pain medication because they thought that pain management through highly addictive drugs was wrong, so how come it suddenly becomes okay to refuse a doctor's orders in areas of birth control? Last I checked, pharmacists aren't medical doctors.  Let's also remember that birth control is not just about unmarried women and their escapades, it's also about married women, too, and it seems that these pharmacists are encouraging us to go back to a time when women were forced to have babies until they dropped. We think such practices are wrong when we find them among the likes of the fundamentalist Mormons in Texas, so shouldn't we also question the acts of these pharmacists, too?

My bc helps with my clinical depression, why should they have the right to tell me I can't take it?

Dollars to doughnuts, this place will be kept in business by those who are happy to buy their shampoo and aspirin there, while going elsewhere for their b.c. needs, those who think that they are justified in having non-procreation sex, but certainly don't want *others* doing it.

I also would be worried if there was no where you could be sure would fill a prescription if you needed it. I take bc because I had very early menopause (not before we had some little feet anyway, but still. . .) and if I don't take it, apparently I'm at risk for major osteoporosis.  I always get scared about what will happen not only to womens' reproductive health, but also other health conditions that respond to hormone treatments, if bc gets taken away!

Like many women, I have taken birth control pills to treat endometriosis. The very idea of this pharmacy aggravates me. I suppose they have the right to sell or not sell whatever they want (people can always choose to have their prescriptions filled elsewhere), but it's still really obnoxious. I wish that enough people would boycott the place so it would go out of business.

Bottom line - the pill isn't all about sex. There are plenty of other indications for taking it, and it's flat out unethical for a pharmacist to deny me the right to the pill for my condition.

As for other items like condoms, my concern is that of public health and the spread of STD's - though I suppose folks like those running the pharmacies thing STD's are punishment from a higher power and wouldn't care if someone got sick from their partner...

You know, no one is denying you all the opportunity to get your pills.  This particular pharmacy is.  Go elsewhere.

Don't buy your shampoo there.  Send a message.  

A lot of people believe that taking birth control is akin to abortion or stopping a life that God has given you.  They have every right to believe that.  You have a right to disagree.  

Nuff said.

The only major issue I have with this is the same issue I have with clinics that provide abortions closing down because of too many protesters and violence, too many times - after a certain point, if you have to travel too far to get your birth control or your abortion, what does it matter that they're legal? if you're poor and/or don't have a car and/or can't get time off, you're screwed. "Choice" becomes a privilege.

I agree with Bunny on this one -- the places where this is most likely to occur are places where there aren't many other options within a reasonable difference (e.g. the rural south, North Dakota, etc.).  If a pharmacist doesn't believe in providing prescribed medication as per his or her job description, why is that person a pharmacist?

the problem I have is that now, before I buy anything in a store I will need to go check all their policies. I certainly won't support this sort of bigotry by buying shampoo but I don't see any warning signs going up.

sigh

Okay i have one important comment, why would they do that?  Are they not aware that people dont only use protection to not get pregnant, people also use it as a protection as to not spread diseases like STD's and AID's.  This is more of an issue about pregnancy its an issue about safety and protection.

You do you community a disservice by limiting birth control products.  You are probably against welfare for needy mothers who were not educated in birth control. Shame on you and your drug store.