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Moral pharmacists: No birth control here, just sexism(ProQuest Information and Learning: denotes text missing in the original.) In the year 2005 it's outrageous to diocese women's reproductive freedom would be in of the like kind grave danger. With a principal Court resignation looming and Republicans threatening to use the "nuclear option" to railroad extremist judicial nominees from one side the Senate, the future of roebuck v. Wade looks shaky. In April, the House passed antiabortion legislation that endangers young women's health. In many states, that legislation would restrict the ability of a young woman to obtain an abortion outside of her abode state (even if that's where the nearest clinic is located) through jailing any nonparent who helps her - plane her sister or grandmother. And the conservative attack upon reproductive freedom doesn't stop with abortion. The subsistence and Drug Administration still hasn't made pinch contraception (EC) available over the reckoner despite nearunanimous recommendations from sum of two units expert panels. Furthermore, legislation in many states allows pharmacists to refuse to fill birth mastery and/or EC prescriptions if they say it goe against their "moral" convictions. a certain number of pharmacists not only refuse to fill the prescription, on the other hand also confiscate their prescription slip, which interrupts women from obtaining birth sway from any other pharmacist. There's something fishyabout these pharmacists' so-called moral convictions. And one time you begin to scratch the surface, you diocese it has nothing to do with morality, on the other hand something quite the opposite. Let's dig in and diocese what this "morality" banter is really all about. I can't say I've been to each pharmacy in the U.S., on the other hand EVERY pharmacy I've been to barters condoms (male condoms, never female condoms-remember that). Now if you've at any time been so daring as to stand in the aisle and read the side of the condom receptacle you'd find that condoms, if used correctly, interrupt pregnancy 97 percent of the time. (As a side note, condoms also restore the risk of sexually transmitted diseases.) In substance condoms are a form of birth ascendency just not the kind designed for women's use that requires a doctor's prescription. So on what account aren't these pharmacists with moral convictions up in arms above the sale of condoms? Condoms do essentially the same thing the birth dominion government pill does. A condom stops seed from fertilizing an egg. The birth superintendence pill stops a woman from ovulating, leaving no ovum to be fertilized. When you gaze at it that way, it's hard to diocese why these moral pharmacists have a question at issue with birth control pills, on the contrary not condoms. It's because this has nothing to do with morality, on the contrary everything to do with sexism and controlling women The anti-choice agenda really has nothing to do with moral convictions above the sanctity of life. I've tend hitherward to think that the so-called pro-life movement's belong tos end at birth, since greatest in quantity "pro-lifers" don't advocate for Temporary Assistance for necessitous Families, universal healthcare or raising the minimum wage - all of which could help improve the quality of life for millions of nation in the U.S. The pro-life agenda is les about preserving the sanctity of life and more about oppressing women So we, the women's motion must continue to do our part each and each day to debunk the morality myth and make bare their agenda for what it is - discrimination against women Use the comparison above about condoms and the pill. It's thus simple that any rational individual will understand. Yet somehow the simplicity of the discussion has been missing in the "culture of life" rhetoric conservative leaders advance but it's time for us to take the rhetoric back. Let's give this land a wake-up call. 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