San Francisco Chronicle - Ill. Court Backs Pharmacists on Morning-After Pill

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An Illinois appeals court has ruled in favor of two pharmacists who objected to having to provide emergency contraception on religious grounds, setting a precedent their lawyer hopes will protect others from judicial or state sanctions. . .

Friday's ruling affirmed an injunction granted by a lower court that found that state law "protects the pharmacists' decisions not to dispense emergency contraceptives due to their conscience.". . 

"This is plenty, because the precedent that this will set in the state of Illinois means that the state is not going to go after a pharmacist that exercises conscientious objection when they know the court has ruled this way in this case," Manion told the Tribune. "So we're very happy with it." Manion is also senior counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice, a religious liberties law firm. . .

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