Emergency Contraception Denied to RAPE VICTIM
A rape victim in Tuscon, Arizona, was given a prescription for emergency contraception—a.k.a. “the morning-after pillā€¯—but she couldn’t get it filled. The 20 year-old woman called dozens of Tucson pharmacies trying to find one that carried the drug.
When she finally did find a pharmacy with it, she said she was told the pharmacist on duty would not dispense it because of religious and moral objections.
The moral of the story? Don’t get raped in Tuscon, I guess.
And, excuse me, but why the fuck is a pharmacy that won’t dispense EC keeping the drug in stock? Do they keep it around just to torment rape victims? “Sure, we’ve got some right here—but you can’t have any. You’ll just have to bear your rapist’s child, you young hussy.ā€¯
Want to do something about this? Well, it may be too late to get EC to the young woman who was raped—the drug has to be taken within the first few days to be effective—but it’s not too late to call the pharmacy in question and give them a piece of your mind: Fry’s Pharmacy in Tuscon, Arizona. Their phone number is 520-323-2695.