www.bbc.co.uk
This specific case was in Texas, where the pharmacy (and pharmacist) risked getting suedCan a pharmacist legally deny a patient a prescription? It depends.
Recent cases highlight the gray area around "conscience clauses" that many patients don't even know exist.www.nbcnews.com
Texas is one of the states that has the "Pharmacists can refuse to provide medication but must refer patients elsewhere" clause. So, the question is, did Texas' new abortion law compensate/change that or not since the pharmacist can be also sued for not referring the prescription/patient to another pharmacist.
Texas also has that new law whereby bounty-hunters can sue everyone involved, including both the pharmacy and the pharmacist, and make them prove to the civil standard that they were satisfied the medicines weren't intended to induce an abortion, so I can see why both the businesses and individual pharmacists might not want to take the risk of finding themselves in court.
No one said Texas laws actually work together much less make sense.
I'm really hoping (but not extremely optimistic) that some federal court can be persuaded to strike down all of this lawsuit crap. It's one thing to press criminal charges against people who get or provide abortions, but quite another to turn citizens against one another in this way... I'm not a lawyer, but what little I know about tort law seems to not fit with letting person A sue lady B for her abortion that didn't affect A.
I thought the SCOTUS made a ruling already, but maybe they just ignored it because they were going to overthrow women's rights over their own bodies anyway.
According to the Washington Post, the Supreme Court and other federal courts dodged ruling on the Texas law by ruling that the persons/agencies being sued were not the right defendants. This is the strength of the Texas law: until someone sues someone else for helping or performing an abortion, there's no one to sue. It creates a serious threat to all who assist in aborting a pregnancy, so serious that those in Texas who perform abortions have quit (temporarily, I hope) until they see which way the courts rule on an actual test of the law. Since federal courts have ruled that there have been no qualified defendants in the cases challenging the law, there's no certainty for anyone who assists people in controlling what happens in their own bodies.
I guess they are hoping to kill off the women who aren't white - maybe make them get surgeries that leave them sterile - else they plan on removing their free status and return them to slavery >.< [I so past rage anymore, but I'm dealing with sarcasm - it just might be so bitter that it doesn't come off right].
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It's like they're deliberately trying to revoke voting rights from the poor via felony homelessness and into for profit legalized slave camps.
