Walgreens Pharmacists File Discrimination Complaint Over Plan B Firings
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
December 8, 2005
**St. Louis, MO (
LifeNews.com) – **Four Walgreens pharmacists who were fired from their jobs in southern Illinois have filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, saying they were discriminated against because of their religious views on dispensing the morning after pill.
The pharmacists said they were “effectively fired” from their jobs when Walgreens put them on unpaid leave last week because they wouldn’t follow a directive from Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, mandating that all pharmacists in the state fill all prescriptions for legal drugs.
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