Planned Parenthood is lobbying the Washington state Board of Pharmacy to modify its conscience clause that allows pharmacists to opt out of dispensing controversial drugs, such as the morning-after pill.
The pro-abortion group says it wants to make sure pharmacists "won't intimidate or harass a patient."
Karen Brauer, president of Pharmacists for Life International, told Family News in Focus that language would apply to pharmacists who simply explain to customers that the morning-after pill, also known as "Plan B," can sometimes cause an early abortion, and that they won't dispense it on moral grounds.
"The purpose of this (proposed) set of regulations," she said, "is to make it impossible for a pharmacist to refuse to dispense this or any other drug that could be used to kill a human early in development."
She said taking away the right of conscience would put all pharmacists in a tough spot.
"It makes the entire practice of pharmacy untenable," she said. "It removes the pharmacist's ability to help the patient to have appropriate drug therapy."
