Womenstake, NWLC's Blog

By Dina Morad, Outreach Manager
National Women’s Law Center

As Shakesville reported earlier today, a new report by the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization (WHO) has demonstrated once again that, in countries where abortion is legal, the number of abortions decline.

Gretchen Borchelt, Senior Counsel
National Women’s Law Center

An article is circulating with news about a “change” to the Illinois rule ensuring women access to contraception at the pharmacy. The article explains that as a result of a lawsuit, a proposed settlement would clarify that pharmacies can work by phone or fax with an off-site pharmacist to process a patient’s prescription.  Then a pharmacy technician or store manager would provide the contraception to the patient.  In other words, where an individual pharmacist refuses, the pharmacy would make arrangements so that a woman would still get her prescription contraception, on-site.   

Guess what?  There is NOTHING NEW here, folks. 

Once again, and here’s where I sound like a broken record, let’s remember that there’s a difference between pharmacies and pharmacists.

By Rachel Rebouche, Law Fellow
National Women's Law Center