Via Pam’s House Blend…  The Stranger is reporting that a pharmacy in Seatle refused to fill a woman’s perscription on moral grounds.  The morning after Pill?  Contraceptives?  Oh mes non:  Antibiotics…

The complaint includes one incident at the Swedish Medical Center outpatient pharmacy in Seattle. According to the complaint, someone at the Swedish pharmacy said she was "morally unable" to fill a Cedar River patient’s prescription for abortion-related antibiotics. Cedar River’s complaint quotes its Renton clinic manager’s May 17, 2005, e-mail account: "Today, one of our clients asked us to call in her prescription… to Swedish outpatient pharmacy. [We] called the prescription in… and spoke with an efficient staff person who took down the prescription. A few minutes later, this pharmacy person called us back and told us she had found out who we were and she morally was unable to fill the prescription." (Cedar River thinks their client eventually got her prescription filled.)

Cedar River Clinics, is a women’s health and abortion provider.  What you need to pay attention to here is that the pharmacy in question has at this point, no idea whether or not the woman who needed the antibiotics has even had an abortion.  They only know the doctors calling the prescription in work for a clinic that provides abortions.  But…never mind.  The moral position now seems to be to let woman who do have abortions die from post surgery infections.  And it gets better…

The complaint also includes an incident from November 2005 in Yakima, in which a pharmacist at a Safeway reportedly refused to fill a Cedar River patient’s prescription for pregnancy-related vitamins. The pharmacist reportedly asked the customer why she had gone to Cedar River Clinics and then told the patient she "didn’t need them if she wasn’t pregnant."

Perhaps the day is coming in which grocery store owners can legally deny food to certain people on moral grounds too.  Who would Jesus starve to death?

"I’m a uniter, not a divider."  Remember that?  Anyone remember that?