A Video Tape Premier Years Reg. If your pharmacist doesn't believe in the morning-after pill, he or she wouldn't have to fill your prescription under a proposed Ohio law. He said he was asked to write the bill by a pharmacist who was afraid of losing his job if he acted on his beliefs.
Similar provisions are pending in Kentucky, Indiana and Montana.
But the bill's emphasis here is on the more controversial drugs entering the marketplace. That drug is a sore point among some pharmacists who believe Preven causes an abortion if the woman has conceived. Faber's bill would protect pharmacists from being fired if they turn away a consumer with a Preven prescription and would shield them from lawsuits. Pharmacists would have to give their employer a list of medications to which they object up front. When a prescription for that drug came in, the pharmacist would refer it to a colleague or to another drugstore or, if neither option were available, possibly send the patient back to the doctor.