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Target Responds to Plan B Flap 

Posted on May 11, 2008 in Prescriptions (Category: Default)

From Simon Templar:

I fired off an email to Target regarding the whole refusal to fill birth control prescriptions controversy (see my entry from Monday. Nov. 14 2005 for details).

Below is my letter which requests a clarification and gently threatens a boycott call from both of my websites. Following that is Target's speedy (they responded in three hours) response.

I am writing as a lifelong Target shopper to express my strong concern about your policy to allow pharmacists to deny dispensing prescriptions based on their "personal religious and moral convictions."

I find it reprehensible that trained professionals in your otherwise fantastic pharmacies would be allowed to play God with people's medications in this way.

I operate two very well-trafficked websites(with combined subscribers of more than 500 and a combined annual readership of more than 150,000) and I am so incensed about this policy I am considering calling for a boycott of Target.

This is not something I do lightly--I already boycott Wal-Mart because of unfair labor practices; but have long trumpeted Target's community involvement and policies as being exemplary.

Please explain your policy to me and my readers.

I request clarification about this policy, and if you are denying people

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