Then find a new a line of work

Dealing a blow to wingnut pharmacists in Washington State, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit lifted a lower court injunction, saying pharmacists had no grounds under freedom of religion to refuse to dispense the 'morning after' contraceptive Plan B.

The right to freely exercise one's religion "does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a valid and neutral law of general applicability," the 9th Circuit panel wrote.

"Any refusal to dispense -- regardless of whether it is motivated by religion, morals, conscience, ethics, discriminatory prejudices, or personal distaste for a patient -- violates the rules," the panel said.

The pharmacists are furious of course. "They said that the new regulations would force them to choose between keeping their jobs and heeding their religious objections to a medication they regard as a form of abortion." Cry me a river. Their job is to dispense legal medications as prescribed by physicians. If they want to drag their religion into their work, they should have gone into the clergy.

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