This letter is in response to Samantha Matheny's shrill, exaggerated claim that women's rights are being eroded in Carson City simply because one pharmacist refused on moral grounds to fill a prescription for what she calls "emergency contraception, which is a preventative form of birth control." Could you be any more vague, Samantha? I can only assume that you are referring to a prescription that would induce an abortion.
In case you haven't noticed, there is a pharmacy on just about every corner in Carson City. If you don't like one, go to another. You've got time. Or if Planned Parenthood is that concerned, why not call around to the different pharmacies in the area to see which ones will fill a so-called emergency contraception prescription and which ones won't. Then type up a nice list and have it available to anyone who wants it.
After all, having access to health care does not and never has meant getting whatever you want, where ever you want to get it. This is just a fact of life, not a "serious lack of access to care."
I think pharmacists should be allowed to stand by their moral decisions, just as doctors do. After all, you cannot go to just any doctor and expect to get an abortioin. Why should you expect to go to any pharmacist to get a prescription filled for a drug that will induce an abortion?
And please, stop throwing out the rape/incest argument. By now everyone is just tired of it. Laws and policies based on the worst-case scenario ignore the everyday facts of life and result in skewed judgments, and decisions
JOY CAIN
Carson City
