But when Anderson showed up at the Thrifty White Pharmacy to pick up the pill, the pharmacist allegedly told her he would not fill the prescription. Instead, the pharmacist told her he wouldn’t sell her the emergency birth control pill because of a personal objection. She drove about 20 miles to a CVS pharmacy in a neighboring town, where another pharmacist declined to fill her prescription. “I had to take my 2½-year-old out in the snowstorm, wind, blowing snow, freezing temperatures to drive to Brainerd just to get my prescription,” Anderson told WCCO. Thrifty White Pharmacy told the TV station this week that Badeaux no longer works at the drugstore.

Source: Washington Post December 13, 2019 10:47 UTC