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WA: State blinks in standoff over pharmacists? rights

By ADF Alliance Alert

WorldNetDaily: "Pharmacists and other health-care workers shouldn't be punished for looking out for their patients' health ? and for abiding by their beliefs," said Steven H. Aden, the senior legal counsel who worked on the case for ADF. "The pharmacy board was right in determining that facilitated referrals work to protect the patients' best interests and that, at the same time, pro-life pharmacists shouldn't be forced to violate their conscience. This is a win-win situation," he said. Kristen Waggoner, one of nearly 1,800 attorneys in the ADF alliance, said the new rules "should ensure that customers receive prescribed drugs in the most efficient manner possible while at the same time respecting the conscience rights of pharmacists, who should never be forced to participate in the risk of destroying human life just to be able to preserve their professional licenses." . . .

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 15, 2010 (boomark / email).