{"id":7831,"date":"2017-02-12T21:39:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T05:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7831"},"modified":"2018-03-06T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T04:02:07","slug":"pharmacists-in-conscientious-objection-to-morning-after-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7831","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacists in &#8216;conscientious objection&#8217; to morning-after pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Some are refusing to sell emergency contraception<\/h2>\n<p>Times of Malta<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Claire Caruana<\/p>\n<p>A number of individual pharmacists are refusing to dispense the morning-after pill on moral grounds, it has emerged, even though the emergency contraceptive is stocked in the pharmacies where they work.<\/p>\n<p>The pharmacists are either directing customers to other pharmacies where they will not have a problem purchasing the pill or else telling them to return to the same pharmacy another time when another &#8220;sympathetic&#8221; pharmacist will be on duty.<\/p>\n<p>Malta Chamber of Pharmacists president Mary Ann Sant Fournier told <i>The Sunday Times of Malta<\/i> that like other independent healthcare professionals, pharmacists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/20161019\/local\/conscientious-objectors-pharmacists-have-right-to-refuse-to-sell-the.628398\" target=\"_self\"> &#8220;have a right to conscientious objection&#8221;<\/a>. . .[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/20170212\/local\/pharmacists-in-conscientious-objection-to-morning-after-pill.639311\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some are refusing to sell emergency contraception Times of Malta Claire Caruana A number of individual pharmacists are refusing to dispense the morning-after pill on moral grounds, it has emerged, even though the emergency contraceptive is stocked in the pharmacies where they work. 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