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Pharmacists ask U.S. Supreme Court to protect their conscience rights

Pharmacists ask U.S. Supreme Court to protect their conscience rights

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(CNSNews.com) – A family-owned pharmacy and two individual pharmacists petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to stop a state law that compels pharmacies and individual pharmacists in Washington State to provide abortion-inducing drugs despite conscience objections. The 2007 Washington law requires pharmacists to dispense all drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a "timely manner consistent with reasonable expectations," with no exceptions for conscience-based re

(CNSNews.com) – A family-owned pharmacy and two individual pharmacists petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to stop a state law that compels pharmacies and individual pharmacists in Washington State to provide abortion-inducing drugs despite conscience objections. The 2007 Washington law requires pharmacists to dispense all drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a "timely manner consistent with reasonable expectations," with no exceptions for conscience-based re…