Pharmacists' Rights at Front Of New Debate (washingtonpost.com)

Pharmacists' Rights at Front Of New Debate (washingtonpost.com):

"'There are pharmacists who will only give birth control pills to a woman if she's married. There are pharmacists who mistakenly believe contraception is a form of abortion and refuse to prescribe it to anyone,' said Adam Sonfield of the Alan Guttmacher Institute in New York, which tracks reproductive issues. 'There are even cases of pharmacists holding prescriptions hostage, where they won't even transfer it to another pharmacy when time is of the essence.'

That is what happened to Kathleen Pulz and her husband, who panicked when the condom they were using broke. Their fear really spiked when the Walgreens pharmacy down the street from their home in Milwaukee refused to fill an emergency prescription for the morning-after pill.

'I couldn't believe it,' said Pulz, 44, who with her husband had long ago decided they could not afford a fifth child. 'How can they make that decision for us? I was outraged. At the same time, I was sad that we had to do this. But I was scared. I didn't know what we were going to do.'"