CNS News reports that House Representative Carolyn Malone (D-NY) and Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NH) have introduced the Access to Birth Control Act in their respective houses. The bill is not in Thomas yet.

When an employer fires pharmacists for not dispensing “Plan B,” that’s the employer’s prerogative. Now it seems that government wants to force pharmacists to sell what they don’t want to sell. Usually we have legislation that bans the sale of drugs that pharmacists would like to sell. :)

Pharmacists have “an obligation to serve women, provide them with access to medication,” Maloney said at a news conference in Washington, D.C. “It is about health care. It’s about the basic right to birth control.”

Birth control—unlike life and liberty which are impinged with this legislation—is not a right. Enough pharmacists are going to want to make money off of “Plan B” for there to be availability. Forcing pharmacists to do things against their moral integrity will reduce availability for the drugs they do sell, when those pharmacists quit.