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Dec. 1st, 2005 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
birdwatcherВот говорят бездушные корпорации, бездушные корпорации, а Волгринз, оказывается, помогает переехать в Миссури тем своим аптекарям, кто не хочет торговать противозачаточными таблетками, как этого требует шизофренический Иллинойский закон.
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:27 pm (UTC)I don't think that your analogy works quite well. There is a very large time frame over which a customer can buy chairs to match a table (in my case, for the antique dining room table it took me a couple of months to find those wooden chairs). :-) However, for a morning-after pill, there is a definite time limit, 48 hours. If a woman takes the pill later, it will not work and may, in addition, be harmful to her health.
In many towns, Walgreens is the only pharmacy that works overnight, and sometimes the only pharmacy in town. Women looking to take the pill often have small chilren, limited economic means (women who can afford to be on the normal birth control pill or IUD don't take the Morning After stuff that, in addition to moral reprecussions, makes a woman pretty sick), and likely limited access to cars (one car per family, the father works, etc).
As long as this medication is approved by the FDA and can be prescribed by a doctor, the pharmacies cannot impose their own religious beliefs onto towns.
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 08:32 pm (UTC)With all the regulation involved in opening a pharmacy (there are a TON of SOPs etc one must follow, and be certified for following), I don't think it would be practical to open a Morning After pill shop.
B/c places like Walgreens buy in bulk, there is no way for an independent pharmacy to compete.
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 08:37 pm (UTC)For example, it may employ 3-4 pharmacists per pharmacy (it's a 24/7 operation after all), and only 1-2 of them refuse to file the prescriptions. As a result, the same amount of medicine is sold, the safe side effects are experienced by all customers who bought and took it, but more of those customers wil have to go on to have surgical abortions b/c the morning after pill did not work.
Grrrrrr....
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 08:56 pm (UTC)However, you are right that we may end up with Contraception Pharmacies, just like we currently have Planned Parenthood doing elective abortions, while every obgyn performs D&C's many times a year following a miscarriage.
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Date: 2005-12-01 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-02 01:51 pm (UTC)Не такое же, а в два раза меньшее. Если я пришла/приехала за лекарством, а его в аптеке нет, то я не буду ждать, пока начнется следующая смена, а поеду в другую аптеку. Если дело не происходит на Аляске, где до другой аптеки и обратно займет больше времени, чем подождать другую смену :)