Respect for conscience and conscientious objection is being eroded in the medical profession.

What lies beyond conscience?

Michael Cook

A court last week ruled that the state of Illinois cannot force pharmacists to sell the morning-after pill against their consciences. It was a important win for health professionals.

• This rule was particularly iniquitous. 
• In 2005, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (now serving time in a federal jail for attempting to sell President Obama’s vacant Senate seat) issued an “emergency rule”. 
• It decreed that pharmacies must fill prescriptions for drugs, including the morning-after pill. 
• “No delays. No hassles. No lecture. Just fill the prescription,” was the Governor’s decree. 
• It became a final administrative rule later that year.
• This steamrolling of conscientious objection was brazenly undemocratic. 
• The state legislature never voted on the controversial measure.
• It was imposed on pharmacists in an effort to shore up Blagojevich’s position in the polls.

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