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Wesley J. Smith: Ruling means WA pharmacists must dispense ?assisted suicide?

By Alliance Alert

Wesley J. Smith writing at Secondhand Smoke (First Things): "A three panel Court of Appeals panel reversed an injunction and sent the case back to the trial court for further consideration. But in finding that Washington regulations requiring pharmacists to carry and dispense all legal drugs and medications is a rule of general applicability?thus precluding religious conscience-based exemptions?it also means that all pharmacists in the state must dispense death to terminally ill patients in Washington who receive lethal prescriptions."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 10, 2009 (boomark / email).