{"id":108,"date":"2008-12-29T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lynnvsekulow\/2008\/12\/pharmacy-case-could-expose-sil.html"},"modified":"2008-12-29T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T13:10:00","slug":"pharmacy-case-could-expose-sil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lynnvsekulow\/2008\/12\/pharmacy-case-could-expose-sil.html","title":{"rendered":"PHARMACY CASE COULD EXPOSE &#8220;SILENT AGENDA&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta name=\"ProgId\" content=\"Word.Document\"><meta name=\"Generator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 11\"><meta name=\"Originator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 11\"><link rel=\"File-List\" href=\"file:\/\/\/C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cbathija%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C04%5Cclip_filelist.xml\"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"State\"><\/o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"place\"><\/o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument>  <w:View>Normal<\/w:View>  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>  <w:PunctuationKerning\/>  <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>  <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>  <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>  <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>  <w:Compatibility>   <w:BreakWrappedTables\/>   <w:SnapToGridInCell\/>   <w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>   <w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>   <w:DontGrowAutofit\/>  <\/w:Compatibility>  <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel> <\/w:WordDocument><\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\"> <\/w:LatentStyles><\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid=\"clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D\" id=\"ieooui\"><\/object>\n\n<style>st1\\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<style><!-- \/* Font Definitions *\/ @font-face\t{font-family:Tahoma;\tpanose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;\tmso-font-charset:0;\tmso-generic-font-family:swiss;\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\tmso-font-signature:1627421319 -2147483648 8 0 66047 0;} \/* Style Definitions *\/ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\t{mso-style-parent:\"\";\tmargin:0in;\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\tfont-size:12.0pt;\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}a:link, span.MsoHyperlink\t{color:blue;\ttext-decoration:underline;\ttext-underline:single;}a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed\t{color:purple;\ttext-decoration:underline;\ttext-underline:single;}p\t{margin:0in;\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\tfont-size:12.0pt;\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}@page Section1\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\tmargin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;\tmso-header-margin:.5in;\tmso-footer-margin:.5in;\tmso-paper-source:0;}div.Section1\t{page:Section1;}--><\/style>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n<style> \/* Style Definitions *\/ table.MsoNormalTable\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\tmso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\tmso-para-margin:0in;\tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\tfont-size:10.0pt;\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\tmso-ansi-language:#0400;\tmso-fareast-language:#0400;\tmso-bidi-language:#0400;}<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;\">Well, Jay, I think your&#8221;victory&#8221; in the <st1:state w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>pharmacy case may be short-lived.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;\">First, on the merits, it seems unlikelythat the courts will create some new &#8220;right&#8221; to allow licensedprofessionals to &#8220;opt out&#8221; of any practice they find religiouslyobjectionable.&nbsp; Second, to the extent that your suit alleges violations offederal regulations, I would hope that President Obama would move quickly torewrite any regulations which you read to advance the kind of broadcircumvention of professional responsibility you apparently desire.<o:p><\/o:p><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;\">As a number of commentposters have already indicated, once you open the &#8220;claim ofconscience&#8221; exception to licensed professional conduct, it is extremelydifficult to see where it can end.&nbsp; Even conscientious objection tomilitary service has raised concerns about whether religious objectors aregiven &#8220;preferential&#8221; treatment over those motivated by othernon-theistic or even political worldviews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;\">I do find one element ofyour case, however, particularly fascinating.&nbsp; The claims being raised bysome pharmacists make it clear that they are not simply&#8221;anti-abortion&#8221;; they are really&#8221;anti-contraception.&#8221;&nbsp; I&#8217;m not aware of what you believe on thismatter personally, but&nbsp;many on the &#8220;Religious Right&#8221; do opposevirtually all artificial contraception because they believe it to be the moral,legal, and medical equivalent of, say, a third term abortion.&nbsp; (This wasalways the view of Nellie Grey, the founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marchforlife.org\/\">March for Life<\/a>.) I findthis preposterous of course.<o:p><\/o:p><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;\">Increasingly, there is arenewed war on contraception.&nbsp; Many would like to take us back&nbsp;to atime before <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=US&amp;vol=381&amp;invol=479\"><i style=\"\">Griswold v. <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:state w:st=\"on\">Connecticut<\/st1:state><\/st1:place><\/i><\/a>,when a state could even deprive a married couple from obtainingcontraceptives.&nbsp; This approach is well chronicled in a particularly goodbook called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prochoicemovement.com\/\"><i style=\"\">How the Pro-Choice MovementSaved America<\/i><\/a> by Cristina Page. I commend it as pre-New Year&#8217;s reading.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Jay, I think your&#8221;victory&#8221; in the Illinoispharmacy case may be short-lived. First, on the merits, it seems unlikelythat the courts will create some new &#8220;right&#8221; to allow licensedprofessionals to &#8220;opt out&#8221; of any practice they find religiouslyobjectionable.&nbsp; Second, to the extent that your suit alleges violations offederal regulations, I would hope that President Obama&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-courts","tag-abortion-contraception-conscience-pharmacists-courts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PHARMACY CASE COULD EXPOSE &quot;SILENT AGENDA&quot; - Lynn v. 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