NARAL Pro-Choice America is trying to force the Kroger chain to carry Plan B, the controversial morning-after pill. They say the medication should be dispensed regardless of a pharmacist’s moral objections.
Kroger’s policy is to allow each store to make its own decision whether to carry Plan B -- based on demographics.
Dionne Vann, director of NARAL Georgia, said pharmacists who won't dispense the drug aren’t doing their job.
“We’re seeing here that somehow these personal values are interfering with medical decisions made between a patient and their doctor,” Vann said.
Sadie Fields, director of the Georgia Christian Alliance, said pharmacists in her state are free to make their own choice on the matter.
“If they object to any drug based on their conscience, how they feel or believe about it," she said, "then they have the right to not participate or to participate.”
Fields says NARAL is just causing a stir.
“When they go after a corporation for making a corporate decision or after the individual store for making a decision that best suits their beliefs or what they want to do," she said, "then they’re going too far.”
