# Disgusting tale of woman's unsucessful search for emergency contraception **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 26, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-tale-of-womans-unsucessful-search-for-emergency-contraception/374272 "2006-09-26T21:58:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 249
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-tale-of-womans-unsucessful-search-for-emergency-contraception/374272/249 "2013-01-08T03:17:32Z")
> [@anya\_marie](#): > > … without being subject to slut-shaming? > [@Pharmacists and refusals](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pharmacists-and-refusals/577713/308): > > … society is prepared to recognize that abhorrence of abortion and abortion-related treatments is a reasonable basis for refusing to serve a particular client a particular medicine. … > [@Pharmacists and refusals](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pharmacists-and-refusals/577713/401): > > … Where does it stop? If the pharmacist knows a woman (because he could see it in her records) had used a Day After pill then refuse all service? Even for prescription Ibuprofen? > [@Pharmacists and refusals](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pharmacists-and-refusals/577713/406): > > … Because that’s what freedom means. … If a pharmacists wishes to refuse service to someone because he doesn’t like her use of the day-after pill, then he should be allowed to do that. Pharmacists are not public servants. They are private actors. They are not paid by the government. They are citizens. > > If a client doesn’t like his pharmacist’s refusal, or his smock, or his wall color, he can go to a different pharmacist. > > That’s what our notion of freedom is. … CMC --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-tale-of-womans-unsucessful-search-for-emergency-contraception/374272)._