 Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Yesterday, a George W. Bush appointed judge declared unconstitutional a Washington state law that, among other things, requires pharmacies to dispense birth control and emergency contraception. While it's not impossible that the law should be blocked on very narrow grounds, Judge Ronald Leighton's opinion overreaches in ways that could undermine many efforts to protect women's health and potentially render religious objectors immune to the rule of law. This lawsuit was brought by pharmacies and pharmacists who objected to dispensing emergency contraception on religious grounds. Yet, as conservative Justice Antonin Scalia explained in a Supreme Court opinion more than twenty years ago, a law does not suddenly become unconstitutional because someone raises a religious objection to it. Scalia explained that "the right of free exercise does not relieve an individual of the obligation... |
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