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The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear a challenge by a pharmacy owner who claimed religious objections to a Washington law requiring pharmacies to stock and dispense Plan B or other emergency contraception.

In 2007, the Washington State Board of Pharmacy adopted rules governing the mandatory stocking and delivery of emergency contraception. The rules do not require any individual pharmacist to dispense medication in conflict with their religious beliefs. Instead, if a pharmacy employs a pharmacist who objects to dispensing emergency contraception for religious reasons, the pharmacy must keep on duty at all times a second pharmacist who does not object to dispensing those drugs.

The Stormans family—who own a local grocery store and pharmacy in Olympia, Washington—challenged the rules in 2012, arguing that the rules required them to violate their religious beliefs. Those beliefs, they said, include a conviction that life begins at conception; therefore, emergency contraception acts as an abortifacient, which they also object to providing.

The medical community does not consider emergency contraception to be an abortifacient.

Glad this nonsense was slapped down. The usual suspects in the opus dei wing wailed about religious freedom, but they can pound sand. You want to run a licensed pharmacy in the US, you gotta sell legally prescribed medicines.

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  4. 4.

    Gimlet

    Too bad Scalia’s not around to torture support from the strict construction of the founding fathers’ remarks on this.

  6. 6.

    Corner Stone

    The idea that these petty little white men in the House think they can take on Hillary Lannister makes me larf.
    Fucking morans.

  11. 11.

    Corner Stone

    Two years and $7M later. All Gowdy has to say is “We report, you decide.”

  12. 12.

    redshirt

    I got to watch the GoT episode because of travel and it seemed quite awesome. And I’ve not seen an episode since Season 1. Jon Snow is the Lord of Light.

  13. 13.

    JaneE

    Love how these guys second guess real doctors. Especially when emergency contraception does not work if you are already pregnant. It doesn’t always work anyway, especially if you are close to ovulation. That is why it is for emergency use rather than routine contraception.

  17. 17.

    NotMax

    Had Scalia still been on the bench, his would have been the vote which provided sufficient for the Court to accept the case.

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    @Baud

    Made me flash back to this:

    “If you go to Z’ha’dum you will die.”

    – Ambassador Kosh (Babylon 5)

  20. 20.

    Baud

    BREAKING: California voters to decide in November whether to legalize recreational marijuana after initiative qualifies for ballot.

  23. 23.

    hovercraft

    @NotMax:
    Worst wingnut week of the year.

    * Drump slumping in multiple polls.
    * Texas sham womens protections thrown out.
    * Religious freedom killed by the supreme court.
    * Last but not least, the death of the Benghazi inquisition.

    @Corner Stone:
    Your onion and garlic are very powerful, perhaps we should all don them to ensure Hillary wins and we take back the senate.
    Scalia is still dead.

    Edit And it’s only Tuesday, plenty of time for more calamaty’s

  27. 27.

    redshirt

    Also, SPOILER ALERT!

    This meme is in totally bad taste. The image shows Cersei calmly celebrating the enactment of her terrorist act of blowing up the Church HQ and so many people inside, including many nobles and all the church clergy. At least hundreds died, maybe many more if the explosion and fire spread to other structures.

    It’s a celebration of terrorism.

  28. 28.

    ? Martin

    @Baud: Well, we’re going to have a gangbuster fucking election…

    So, gun control – licensure needed for ammunition sales.
    Ban plastic bags
    Repeal Prop 227 – so bilingual education will be allowed again
    Require use of cøndöms in porn films made in-state
    Prohibit state agencies from paying more for drugs than the US V.A. does
    Death penalty repeal
    Ask legislators to work to repeal Citizens United

    and now legalize pot. Oh, and elect the first woman president. 2008 was bittersweet – we voted for Obama but lost Prop 8. We’ll do better this year.

  31. 31.

    ? Martin

    So why is the GOP trying to reverse a ban on flags celebrating the enemies of the US government in cemeteries? Are they pro-Nazi flags now too?

  32. 32.

    Villago Delenda Est

    One word:

    GOOD.

    If these “Christians” are so serious about their religion, they need to select their professions with greater care.

  33. 33.

    Roger Moore

    @? Martin:

    Ban plastic bags

    Unfortunately, that’s actually a vote on whether we should revoke the legislature’s ban on single-use plastic bags, so it’s really a regressive attempt to roll back something good rather than a progressive attempt to enact something good.

  35. 35.

    maya

    Don’t cry for me Sam Alito.
    The truth is I never liked you
    All through my wild days
    My mad existence
    I kept my distance
    Keep your’s too.

    Going to Sam Alito, Sam Alito here I come,
    They got some crazy little cases there
    And any rainy day now, you’re going to win you one.

    Sam Alito, Sam Alito, men have confirmed you,
    But you’re so unlike a justice with those misty eyes,
    Is it only ’cause they’re jealous that they blamed you?
    For that Sam Alito strangeness near your thighs.

  38. 38.

    redshirt

    @Villago Delenda Est: It is pretty amazing that our country has completely shifted regional identification since the 1970’s. New England used to be die hard Republican states. Maine and Vermont are the only 2 states, for example, that never voted for FDR.

  39. 39.

    redshirt

    @trollhattan: She’s a monster. But meme’s are lighthearted and comical, and what the joke here is about is the (fictional) deaths of maybe thousands through terrorism. Something our society usually holds as abhorrent.

    Westeros Lives Matter

  40. 40.

    trollhattan

    @Roger Moore:
    Exactly. The plastic bag makers have fashioned themselves after the tobacco and ammo makers. It’s about Freedom, donchano?

  41. 41.

    Snarki, child of Loki

    Any pharmacist that refuses to dispense morning-after contraception to a rape victim should be charged with “Accessory to Rape, after the fact”. A serious felony.

    If they can’t do the time, they shouldn’t do the crime.

  42. 42.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @? Martin: IMHO we ought to start referring to the various flags waved by the insurrectionists as the Stars&barstika. YMMV.

  44. 44.

    maya

    @Baud:

    Like when they brought back Bobby on Dallas by making the previous season a long dream segment.

    No, no , no. It’s more like when Bob Hartley woke up next to Bernie Sanders and realized that his whole Vermont inn proprietor experience was a nightmare.

  45. 45.

    Roger Moore

    @trollhattan:
    I think they’re actually even more cynical than that; it’s profitable for them to do it just as a delaying tactic. A quick check says it cost them about $3.1M to qualify the referendum for the ballot. You can bet their profits from continued sales of single use bags while the measure is on hold are more than that, so they’ve come out ahead even if they don’t spend a penny trying to pass the measure and it goes down in flames.

  46. 46.

    sharl

    I see I’m not the only one reminded of the recently departed Justice Vaffanculo Scalia. But let us temper our glee at his absence with the fact he was human like all of us, and perhaps some of his {airquote} bad ‘tude {/airquote} was the result of having some bad days, just like the rest of us, as this excerpt from his dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges illustrates. The footnote only serves to make it extra poignant for me.

  49. 49.

    PIGL

    @redshirt: It’s not terrorism if you’re the Queen. Or a government. Or even if you are very very rich. Or white. And here, it’s all of the above.

  52. 52.

    hovercraft

    I’m not sure I buy this NY Times analysis. But Supreme Women Rock.

    Since the death of Justice
    Scalia, the justices have been
    more likely to form consensus.

    Each justice is now voting in the majority in non-unanimous cases either more than or with about the same frequency as in the past, with the exception of Justice Clarence Thomas.

    Justice Kennedy maintained his position as the court’s swing justice, while three of the liberal justices — Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Breyer and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — significantly increased their percentages in the majority.

    Justice Sotomayor has become the most
    liberal justice, and three members of
    the conservative bloc are drifting left.

    Individual justice ideology scores, which are based on voting patterns, also illustrate the court’s leftward shift. With the exception of Justice Thomas, the conservative justice scores moved closer to their liberal counterparts.

    Meanwhile, Justice Sotomayor, Mr. Obama’s first nominee to the court, surpassed Justice Ginsburg as the court’s most liberal justice. Justices Breyer and Kagan inched slightly more conservative in their scores, reflecting the increased consensus this term.

  53. 53.

    RaflW

    You want to run a licensed pharmacy in the US, you gotta sell legally prescribed medicines.

    Amen.

  54. 54.

    ? Martin

    @Roger Moore: Ah, got it. I was only going from the single line. Of course that makes tremendously more sense. But I doubt it’ll pass – once habits change, people aren’t usually eager to change them back.

  56. 56.

    trollhattan

    @Roger Moore:
    Wouldn’t surprise me. A product of the low 2014 turnout is a lowered bar for number of signitures to qualify for this year. Lucky us.

  57. 57.

    redshirt

    @PIGL:

    It’s not terrorism if you’re the Queen. Or a government. Or even if you are very very rich. Or white. And here, it’s all of the above.

    Just a reminder her brother, Jamie, was banished and lost his honor because he killed his King because the King was about to burn everyone he could in King’s Landing. Like Cersei just did.

    That last glance they shared as she was seated on the Iron Throne, at long last.

  61. 61.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @redshirt: These are the asshats who paraded her naked in the streets of King’s Landing. They kinda set themselves up for this.

  63. 63.

    Suzanne

    @Villago Delenda Est: Word. If something is against your beliefs, pick a profession in which you don’t have to do it.

    A friend of mine is a nurse, and she had a classmate in nursing school who said it was against her faith to see any cocks that were not her husband’s, so she needed to have someone else do catheters or anything on male patients. They rightfully told her to deal or FOAD.

  64. 64.

    Seth Owen

    @redshirt: I agree it is in bad taste, but I think it is mischaracterized as terrorism. I have seen that claimed elsewhere, but I think it is wrong. Cersei’s aim wasn’t to terrorize. Instead it is better understood as a mass assassination with utter disregard to the collateral damage. It is more like the Red Wedding than anything, but even more heinous in scale.

    Ramsey Bolton was the closest thing to a terrorist in GOT, although the tit-for-tat mass crucifications in Mereen also had terror overtones.

  69. 69.

    Miss Bianca

    I suppose this meme would make some fucking sense to me if I actually gave a flying fuck about watching fucking Game of Thrones, yes?

  70. 70.

    Emma

    @Miss Bianca: Yep. It only made sense to me because of an old, old Survey of American Constitutional Law class, so I went to look for spoilers and sure enough, I had guessed right.

  71. 71.

    redshirt

    @efgoldman: I agree, it just truly is an example of regions swapping political parties because of… reasons….

    It’s incredibly dramatic if you were to think of it as a historian. In the span of 30 years our political compass completely flipped colors, though of course the general policies of each region stayed the same.

  72. 72.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @redshirt: They set themselves up. They knew who they were dealing with going into this…a woman who has demonstrated, repeatedly, that she’s utterly ruthless. Violence is how problems were dealt with in the Middle Ages.

  73. 73.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @redshirt: When WE use terror, it’s OK. See Iraq, see Dresden, see Hiroshima.

    It’s when the other guys use terror that’s BAD. It’s unfair. It’s cowardly. Like bombing cities from 20,000 feet up isn’t the ultimate in cowardice.

    Ultimately, it’s about who wins.

    Cersei won. Her enemies had their chance to remove her from the field, and they neglected to do so.

  75. 75.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @redshirt: From Cersei’s perspective, they did deserve it. After what they did to her, they expected her to retire to a nunnery or something?

    Lannisters always pay their debts.

  80. 80.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @redshirt: A lot of the current crop of Daesh are pretty much that. But they do have a rationalization for their actions. They’re acting in the name of Allah.

    Just like Robert Dear was acting in the name of God.

  82. 82.

    iLarynx

    Alito’s descent citing “sincerely held religious beliefs” is total horse shit. “Sincerely held beliefs” of any sort have no bearing on the law in such a case. There are lots of people where I live whose “sincerely held religious beliefs” have in the past and still to this day, lead them to believe that black Americans should be enslaved. “It says so in the bible!” We have laws against that sort of backwards thinking these days. It’s why we don’t stone blasphemers anymore as well. What’s next? Allowing ambulance drivers to refuse service to injured gay people because they believe their deity would frown on the action? Maybe we should allow pharmacists of Mayan decent to toss their virgin daughters into active volcanoes to please their deity?* “Opus dei” is right on the money. “Theocrats” works as well.
    .
    .
    *Please pardon the mythology used to make a point.

  83. 83.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @nutella: Yup. Pretty much.

    Americans love war. When they don’t have to experience themselves with their own precious asses on the line.

  85. 85.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @redshirt: Look, applying 21 century mores to a fictional show set in a fantasy environment based on 15th Century Europe and Near East is nutty at best.

  86. 86.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Villago Delenda Est: Hugh Hewitt, whose Wiki bio fails to mention his military service. has a much, but not enough, mocked tweet about how if Trump pledges to name Tom Cotton as Veep and this General Mattis– about whom I know nothing but he’s the latest hero of the Kristol-ites– as SecDef, he’ll beat Clinton. Like I said, I know nothing about Mattis but Cotton is all hot and bothered to re-invade Iraq

  87. 87.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: so I made myself curious and googled Mattis.

    After the gathering, the 65-year-old Mattis, also known as the “Warrior Monk” for his ascetic intellect, declined to issue a flat denial that he would run.
    His coyness is atypical. During his 44 years in uniform, part of his attraction was his willingness to offer his unvarnished, and sometimes, impolitic, opinions. “You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway,” Mattis said in 2005. “So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.”

    The Time writer went from “ascetic intellect” to “hell of a lot of fun to shoot them” without missing a beat. I now have a vague recollection of the whole “warrior monk” thing. Did Cole or one of the other FPers post something here?

  88. 88.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: If Tom Cotton is eager to end his political career, by all means he should take Drumpf up on such an offer.

    I’d still like to know how he managed to leave his first tour of duty in Iraq without getting thrown into a wall locker and tossed down a flight of stairs.

  91. 91.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Gretchen: Oh, fuck the theofascists with a rusty unlubed chainsaw. I’m tired of their repeated whining that everyone else in this country will not comply fully with their fucked up bronze age belief system.

  92. 92.

    Geeno

    @Baud: Well, story-wise, Jon Snow had to die so his service as Lord Commander on the Wall would be over. Service on the Wall is until death. With that out of the way, he could come back and go on to do other things.

  93. 93.

    Stan

    @Villago Delenda Est: ” Like bombing cities from 20,000 feet up isn’t the ultimate in cowardice.”

    Look up the casualty rates for WW2 bomber crews, then maybe come back and retract that please.

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