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We’ve got a serious problem in this country in which we have all these legislative bodies that have no job other than to make new laws, so to justify their existence, they have to constantly be putting new restrictions on what we can and can’t do. They are constantly ordering the rest of us around:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Addressing the growing controversy over U.S. pharmacists who refuse to dispense birth control or emergency contraceptives, several lawmakers on Thursday unveiled a bill that would require pharmacies to fill all prescriptions.
Led by New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg and New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney, both Democrats, the bill would require all pharmacies to fill prescriptions including birth control pills and the so-called morning after pill. The bill applies to pharmacies, not to an individual pharmacist.
“We are here to tell the right-wing that enough is absolutely enough,” Maloney told supporters near the Capitol.
You know what? If someone wants people to have birth control, they can open their own store. Or they can rely on the power of Capitalism, which says that if people want birth control, the pharmacy that doesn’t sell it loses business to the pharmacy that does. But ordering pharmacists to sell a product by law? That’s a perfect example of what I’m talking about.
This is a free country. But it’s got to get less free every day if Federal and State Congresses have to justify their existences by making up new ways all the time to tell the rest of us what we can’t do and what we have to do.
You can email New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg and New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney using these links:
Sen. Frank Lautenberg
Rep. Carolyn Maloney
Update. From Say Anything:
Should we require that Muslim grocers sell pork chops? Can I require that my corner gas station carry condoms for me? To, you know, uphold my reproductive rights?
Of course not. Those are silly propositions. And so is this one.
