Planned Parenthood protests Target's Plan B policy

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I have mixed feelings. I have to admit that I am surprised at Target standing up against PP this way. They are allowing the pharmacists to not fill the RX, but then, of course, they have to pass it along to another pharmacist or pharmacy, and make sure the RX gets filled. Doesn’t seem like PP has anything to complain about to me.

**MINNEAPOLIS - **Target Corp. is defending its policy on filling prescriptions for emergency contraception after the Planned Parenthood Federation of America accused the retailer of disrespecting customers’ reproductive rights.
Target allows pharmacists to choose not to fill requests for emergency contraception, also known as Plan B, if it is against their religious beliefs.

The issue has caused an ongoing debate nationwide between people who oppose abortion because of religious beliefs and those in favor of abortion rights.

Emergency contraception primarily delays ovulation long enough for sperm to die without fertilizing an egg. Those who oppose the drug say it could cause an abortion, but medical experts disagree. More…duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/13143123.htm
 
Oh the folks at PP just can’t stand it that a large segment of the population has never fallen for their rhetoric, and have the audacity to think for themselves. Of course pharmacists ought to be free to refuse to fill prescriptions that might cause the death of an unborn child on the grounds of religious beliefs. And as to the medical experts “findings,” well, they’ve been wrong before. Medicine is not an exact science, as every doctor and nurse knows. Any drug that might have the potential to kill the child in the womb ought to be outlawed if there were any real justice in this country.
 
Wow, I’m rather impressed Target took the stand it did. Kudos to them.

I don’t usually shop there, but if the rest of the company policies are conscientious like that I may need to spend some of my money there.

Are there any known boycott type issues I should know about Target before I start shopping there?
 
All I can say is that I’m shopping at Target and plan to tell them why.
 
Pro-Choice my ‘you know what.’ They only believe in choice if you agree with them.
 
so I’ve never really looked into the plan b thing, but does it ONLY prevent ovulation? LMAO – sorry, but that doesn’t sound like much of a “backup” plan to me…if you’ve already ovulated (like in the past 24hrs…) does it then go into “inhospitable environment” mode? I shoudl probably look it up myself, but I haven’t even had coffee yet…
 
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leaner:
so I’ve never really looked into the plan b thing, but does it ONLY prevent ovulation? LMAO – sorry, but that doesn’t sound like much of a “backup” plan to me…if you’ve already ovulated (like in the past 24hrs…) does it then go into “inhospitable environment” mode? I shoudl probably look it up myself, but I haven’t even had coffee yet…
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From what I’ve read, it HOPES to prevent ovulation, but if it doesn’t, then it prevents implantation.
 
Target itseld is not on “The Boycott List” but they sell some items that are made by manufacturers that are on the list… but IMNSHO, that isn’t a reason to not shop there. They offer a good service and have some reasonable prices on items that I do support. This would be a good reason, for me anyway, to shop there. Anything very openly making a pro-life stand would make me applaud them.
 
I believe Target may have been one of the stores that recently stopped the Salvation Army from collecting at Christmas. At first I thought this was bad, but apparently Salvation Army has procured abortions in the past, so I’m with Target on that one also.
 
If Target is worried about anything, it is getting sued by the employee’s. It’s sounding like a cover your tush policy from the corperate HR structure.

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tamccrackine:
Target itseld is not on “The Boycott List” but they sell some items that are made by manufacturers that are on the list… but IMNSHO, that isn’t a reason to not shop there. They offer a good service and have some reasonable prices on items that I do support. This would be a good reason, for me anyway, to shop there. Anything very openly making a pro-life stand would make me applaud them.
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Yes, and you would have a hard time finding a store that didn’t sell items on the boycott list. Johnson and Johnson for instance. They make a ton of stuff that you can buy just about anywhere.
 
The only ‘medical experts’ that disagree that Plan B is an abortifacient are the ones who have been pushing to redefine conception to mean implantation, rather than the joining of sperm and egg.

It’s an obvious semantic ploy, but they are having quite a bit of success in the medical field. Once you ‘define’ pregnancy as beginning at implantation, you can look into the camera and tell everybody “It’s OK, it won’t terminate any pregnancy.”
 
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tamccrackine:
Target itseld is not on “The Boycott List” but they sell some items that are made by manufacturers that are on the list… but IMNSHO, that isn’t a reason to not shop there. They offer a good service and have some reasonable prices on items that I do support. This would be a good reason, for me anyway, to shop there. Anything very openly making a pro-life stand would make me applaud them.
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Thanks for that. When a store carries multiple brands of items and is responsible in the important matters then it’s easy to support them without supporting those items which are on the banned list. If they don’t move off their shelves they’ll stop reordering them and in time the entire store will be stocked with the ‘good’ items. Maybe???
 
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oldfogey:
I believe Target may have been one of the stores that recently stopped the Salvation Army from collecting at Christmas. At first I thought this was bad, but apparently Salvation Army has procured abortions in the past, so I’m with Target on that one also.
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Actually, there was a news story about that the other day. Evidently, Target wants to remain consistent with not allowing soliciation outside its stores (they don’t allow anyone - it wasn’t just the SA). But they are teaming with the SA on their web site to hook up people who want to give with items needed by hurricane victims. Not a bad compromise.
 
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YinYangMom:
Wow, I’m rather impressed Target took the stand it did. Kudos to them.

I don’t usually shop there, but if the rest of the company policies are conscientious like that I may need to spend some of my money there.

Are there any known boycott type issues I should know about Target before I start shopping there?
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TARGET SELLS CONDOMS.
 
Bella3502 said:
TARGET SELLS CONDOMS.
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Please find me a place that doesn’t sell condoms. I cannot shop anywhere in my town that doesn’t sell condoms or something morally objectionable. Well, maybe Dollar General, but i they don’t have the selection to enable me to do all my grocery shopping there. I do like to boycott places and let them know why i am boycotting them in hopes of affecting change, but you really have to pick your battles. And when a corporation does something like this that enables people to live their faith without having to choose between employment and religion, then i say please encourage them.
 
Back in my days of confusion, I promoted “Plan B” thinking that I was being “pro=life” to do so. :o

I argued the same rhetoric, that it prevents ovulation, and if conception occurrs, that it does nothing.

I had a friend at the time, my roommate, who was the biggest Pro-Choice advocate you’ve ever met. She actually TOLD me that Plan B CAUSES abortions if conception occurrs.

Now mind you…a PRO CHOICE social worker with a Master’s Degree, working in health care and supportive of euthanasia. Actually told me the TRUTH about this pill.

Basically what Plan B is is just a double dose of a high-hormone (prostagladin, I think) pill, which has to be taken within 72 hours of intercourse in order to be “effective”.

Of course, what they don’t tell you is that conception takes place within an hour of intercourse, not 72 hours. And that the hormone supresses ovulation, yes…but if one has already ovulated and is fertile, then it hardens the lining of the uterus PREVENTING IMPLANTATION. Which would, of course, be ABORTION officially.

It’s really just the RU-485 pill in disguise and designed for younger babies.

I’m glad Target took a stand on this and I was surprised to see it. It’s a type of compromise, so the pharmacist in question still has a moral dilemma in that he/she has to pass on the “job” to someone else, therefore nothing is really changed here.

But it’s a start and it’s a step in the right direction. In this culture, that’s a LOT.
 
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dafalax:
Please find me a place that doesn’t sell condoms. I cannot shop anywhere in my town that doesn’t sell condoms or something morally objectionable.
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That is my point…

Why applaud a pharmacist for not filling a prescription for birth control pills when right across the aisle, there are 50 brands of condoms for your choosing? Why the double standard? If a pharmacist is so morally against dispensing BC pills, then they should be morally against working a few feet away from the condoms.

I have watched “boys with skateboards under their arms” buy Trojans at Target. Never any outrage there.
 
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That is my point…

Why applaud a pharmacist for not filling a prescription for birth control pills when right across the aisle, there are 50 brands of condoms for your choosing? Why the double standard? If a pharmacist is so morally against dispensing BC pills, then they should be morally against working a few feet away from the condoms.

I have watched “boys with skateboards under their arms” buy Trojans at Target. Never any outrage there.
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I gotcha. That is a super point. 👍 However, since we have let the businesses in our country get to the point that you would have to be Amish to not support something objectionable, we must now reclaim the territory we lost by encouraging businesses to move back in the right direction. There’s now a phone company, Sienna, that is wholly Catholic and doesn’t give money to Planned Parenthood or other objectionable causes like AT&T and Sprint do . Maybe if we keep creating demand, we can have a major department store franchise that won’t promote the Culture of Death.
 
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