Aw: Feminists Angry Because Kansas Lets Pharmacists Have A Conscience May 16, 2012

Maybe the state of Kansas is making atonement for its past: giving us Tiller the Killer.

George Tiller, that is. That notorious late-term abortionist from Kansas.

But we digress.

This week, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed a bill allowing pharmacists the right to refuse to fill prescriptions for drugs that they believe can cause abortions.

Well, that sucks. Pharmacists who believe in that whole "first, do no harm" part of the Hippocratic Oath.

And feminists ain't happy.

And, of course, the argument from the feminists goes the way it usually does: It's a law made by men.

Gasp!

Oh, by the way, a group of pro-life women just released this ad.

Women!

Then there's the "well that drug doesn't necessarily cause an abortion" argument.

"People who believe that life begins at conception often falsely claim that the birth control pill and morning after pill cause abortions because one side effect of taking either pill is a thinning of the uterine lining, which can make implantation of a fertilized egg difficult, but that only happens if the pills have failed to do their primary job, which is to prevent ovulation," writes Erin Gloria Ryan for Jezebel.

We're not quite sure what point Ms. Ryan is trying to make there. She freely admits that the drug can cause an abortion. Which is why some pharmacists are reluctant to prescribe it.

They don't want to be an accomplice to killing a baby.

Not that Ms. Ryan has enough sense to view it that way.

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