{"id":10835,"date":"2015-07-30T00:08:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T05:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/?p=10835"},"modified":"2015-07-30T00:08:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T05:08:11","slug":"court-orders-rph-sell-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/court-orders-rph-sell-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"court orders RPh sell abortion pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_5002.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_5002.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;Court Rules Christian-Owned Pharmacy Must Stock Plan B despite Religious Beliefs<br \/>\nAmanda Casanova | Religion Today Contributing Writer | Tuesday, July 28, 2015<br \/>\nCourt Rules Christian-Owned Pharmacy Must Stock Plan B despite Religious Beliefs<\/p>\n<p>A Washington state pharmacy must stock the morning after pill despite the owner\u2019s claim that the pill is against his religious beliefs. A federal appeals court ruled last week that Ralph\u2019s Thriftway must stock Plan B despite his religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cThe rules are rationally related to Washington\u2019s legitimate interest in ensuring that its citizens have safe and timely access to their lawful and lawfully prescribed medications,\u201d Judge Susan Graber said in her decision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Christian News Network reports the ordeal started when Kevin Stormans, the pharmacy\u2019s owner, received a call in 2006 asking if the pharmacy sold the morning after pill. Stomans said the store did not, and he later began to receive complaints. The Washington Board of Pharmacy then launched an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, the state passed regulations that required pharmacies stock the morning after pill. Stormans and two of his pharmacists filed suit against the state regulation, and a federal court ruled in favor of Ralph\u2019s Thriftway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The issue was then taken to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that Plan B must be stocked.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cThe state allows pharmacies to refer for all kinds of reasons. In practice, it only bans religiously motivated referrals,\u201d Storman said. \u201cWith 33 pharmacies stocking the drug within five miles of our store, it is extremely disappointing that the court and the state demand that we violate our conscience or lose our family business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll we are asking is to be able to live out the beliefs that we hold, as Americans have always been able to do, and to be able to refer patients for religious reasons, as the medical and pharmaceutical associations overwhelmingly recommend,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The case will likely be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Court Rules Christian-Owned Pharmacy Must Stock Plan B despite Religious Beliefs Amanda Casanova | Religion Today Contributing Writer | Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Court Rules Christian-Owned Pharmacy Must Stock Plan B despite Religious Beliefs A Washington state pharmacy must stock the morning after pill despite the owner\u2019s claim that the pill is against his religious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-2OL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10836,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions\/10836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}