I noticed that Wal-Mart had caved to Planned Parenthood sometime last week, and it appears that PP has recognized this for the victory that it is and has now set its sights on Target. (Seriously, I am not going to have anywhere left to shop if they keep this up.)
From Lifenews.com, “Planned Parenthood Targets Target After Wal-Mart Morning After Pill Win,” by Steven Ertelt
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — After pressuring Wal-Mart to revise its policy on the sale and distribution of the morning after pill to make it easier to obtain, Planned Parenthood is setting its sights on Target, another large retailer. The abortion business is asking its supporters to contact Target pharmacies to make sure they stock the Plan B drug.
Last week, Wal-Mart adopted a new policy ensuring that customers “will now receive their prescriptions or OTC products in store without discrimination (no harassment or lectures).”
Wal-mart pledged to stock the morning after pill in every store where at least one person requests the drug and to assist customers in obtaining the drug if it is not available at a particular location.
The move came after tremendous pressure from Planned Parenthood.
Celebrating the victory, the abortion business told its members and supporters to lobby Target stores.
“Fresh from our Wal-Mart victory, we’re zeroing in on the biggest holdout,” Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards told her supporters in an email LifeNews.com obtained. “It’s time to target Target.”The first step in the pro-abortion group’s plan is to have its members collect data on which Target stores stock the morning after pill and which stores have pharmacists who have moral or religious objections to selling it.
“Visit Target stores in your community to check on the availability of emergency contraception,” Planned Parenthood instructs its members.
Richards says the abortion business will be relentless in forcing Target to promote the morning after pill as much as possible.
“Our work won’t be done until Target and other pharmacy chains adopt policies that [promote the drug],” Richards said.
What I would like to see is an organization like the American Family Association come out in opposition to Wal-Mart’s policy revision and stand up for Target’s support of pharmacists who are opposed to the Morning-After Pill. I mean, I am all for using your vast grassroots organization to effectively boycott Ford for being pro-homosexual and NBC for showing blasphemous sitcoms… but I feel like this is an area where AFA could truly make a stand in an issue of life and death.
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I can’t help feeling, in my feminist soul, that women’s bodies and psyches are being exploited to make billions of dollars for pharmaceutical companies, and, of course, the abortion industry. (The ready availability of Plan B does not decrease pregnancies, but this must be great advertising for Planned Parenthood.)
I’m not a fan of having our bodies, psyches, and morals be commandeered in the name of big business. I mean, who are these people - Republicans?
The free-market capitalist in me would prefer more diversity in the choices that pharmacists and stores make to stock this drug; if people don’t care for that particular decision, they can patronise other businesses. This notion, however, of ensuring that the world patterns itself upon one’s particular viewpoint is simply ridiculous.
Why does target refuse to sell morning after pills? I didn’t even know they took that stance.
As far as I know, Target doesn’t refuse to sell the morning after pills, but they don’t force their pharmacists to sell it either. In other words, if the pharmacist doesn’t have a moral problem selling the pill, Target lets them and if they do, Target doesn’t make them. Not the best stance, in my opinion, but obviously better than forcing your pharmacists to sell something they morally disagree with.