Wal-Mart will now carry morning-after pill Options

[jonathan83]

http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/03/news/compa...dex.htm?cnn=yes

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - In a major turnaround, Wal-Mart will begin stocking Plan B contraceptives -- commonly referred to as the "morning-after pill" -- at all of its pharmacies, the company said Friday.

"We expected more states to require us to sell emergency contraceptives in the months ahead," said Ron Chumiuk, vice president of Pharmacy for Wal-Mart, in a statement.

"Because of this, and the fact that this is an FDA-approved product, we feel it is difficult to justify being the country's only major pharmacy chain not selling it."

This post has been edited by jonathan83: Mar 3 2006, 05:50 PM

[Spectatrix]

Can I sue Burger King for not selling the Hardee's 2/3 LB Six-Dollar Burger?

Are these people insane?

I think that requiring a business to sell a specific product is asinine. I also don't think that pharmacists should be able to deny distributing a prescription (of anything) if the pharmacy they work at dictates otherwise. Excepting cases where the pharmacist believes that the prescription is fake or that the person is getting multiple prescriptions (for the same thing) from different doctors or something like that.