Today RHRealityCheck blogged on the victory for reproductive freedom today in Wisconsin. Today an appeals court upheld a lower court's ruling that the state's Pharmacy Examining Board was right to discipline pharmacist Neil Noesen for failing to fill, based on religious objections, a woman's birth control prescription. On the decision, RHRealityCheck writes:
"In other words, if Noesen had a problem filling prescriptions for birth control pills he not only should have made that clear to his employer off the bat but he also should have quickly transferred the prescription to a pharmacy where the woman could get it filled smoothly and with minor interruption (because, let's be clear, not filling the prescription in the first place is still an interruption)."
You can learn more about cases like Noesen's by reading our report: Religious Refusals and Reproductive Rights: Accessing Birth Control at the Pharmacy.
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