A pharmacist in Minnesota is being sued for violating a woman’s civil rights by refusing to fill her morning-after-pill prescription.
“A Minnesota pharmacist is on trial after denying a mother of five a contraceptive prescription.
George Badeaux, the pharmacist in chief at Thrifty White drugstore in McGregor, Minnesota is accused of violating the mom’s civil rights by refusing to fill the emergency order.
The pharmacist and drugstore are being sued under the Minnesota Human Rights Act, which prohibits sex discrimination, including discrimination based on pregnancy or childbirth.
In January 2019, Andrea Anderson of McGregor (population 391) went to the only drugstore in town to get a prescription for Ella, a “morning-after” contraceptive, after a condom failed during intercourse. Citing his “beliefs”, Badeaux refused the prescription, according to the complaint filed in Aitkin County District Court.
‘Badeaux informed her that there would be another pharmacist working the next day, who might be willing to fill the medication but that he could not guarantee that they would help’, the complaint states.
Badeaux also warned Anderson against trying to get the prescription filled at a Shopko pharmacy in a nearby town, and refused to tell her where else she could try, as required by state law, the complaint continues.
According to Anderson, another pharmacist at a CVS in the city of Aitkin also blocked her from getting the prescription filled. The complaint states she traveled 100 miles round trip, ‘while a massive snowstorm was headed to central Minnesota’, to get the prescription filled at a Walgreens in the town of Brainerd.
Anderson is represented by lawyers from Gender Justice, based in St. Paul.
In testimony this week, Baldeux stated: ‘I’m a Christian. I believe in God. I love God. I try to live the way He would want me to live. That includes respecting every human being’.
In a pretrial order, Aitkin County District Judge David Hermerding ruled Badeaux’s religious rights are not at issue.
Under the law, the crux of the case ‘is whether [Badeaux] deliberately misled, obfuscated and blocked Ms. Anderson’s path to obtaining Ella’, the judge ruled.
Thrifty White’s owner, Matt Hutera, testified that Anderson’s was the only prescription for Ella that was ever requested in his 11 years at the store.
Hutera admitted under cross-examination that no other drug would be refused because of a pharmacist’s conscientious objection, an indication Anderson’s sex was key in Badeux’s denial of service.
Badeaux trial’s, which began on Monday, comes in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade, which has led some to question the constitutionality of birth control.
Senator Marsha Blackburn has called the 1965 Supreme Court case which legalized access to birth control, Griswold v. Connecticut, ‘constitutionally unsound’.
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would guarantee the right to contraception under federal law”. -Greg Owen, LGBTQ Nation
In the spring of 1965, the Supreme Court handed down its Griswold v. Connecticut decision striking down Comstock-era laws banning the sale of contraceptives. The two appellants were the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Estelle T. Griswold, and the Medical Director of Planned Parenthood C. Lee Buxton.
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| The front page of The Courant on June 8, 1965, carried news that Connecticut prohibition on birth control was unconstitutional (Hartford Courant) |
Women are compelled to make a choice in their early adulthood between their short-term hypergamous instincts and their long-term marital prospects and it would appear as though modern women are now rather far along in the process of abandoning marriage in favor of concubinage.
Given that sexual exclusivity is neither guaranteed nor enforced in marriage any longer and concubinage has always been held to be a lesser alternative to full marriage, it comes as no surprise that for young women, a life as a kept woman is regularly seen as preferable to being married to a bog-standard male breadwinner when the median earnings of men in the U.S. who work full-time year-round have never been as high as they were back in 1973.
Moreover, birth control plays havoc with monogamy.
The divergent rate with which venereal disease affects the sexes is evidence in support of the supposition in which larger numbers of women fornicate with a much smaller group of men.
“About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases.
According to U.S. health officials, women were nearly twice likely as men to be infected, according to an analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 21 percent of women were infected with genital herpes, compared to only 11.5 percent of men”. -JoAnne Allen, Reuters
Contrary to the conjecture that was put forth by its most vociferous proponents, sex contraception has not only stunted demographic growth to where there are significantly fewer potential mothers, but it has also brought about more exploitation of them.
When faced with the need to acknowledge the irresponsibility of the woman in getting pregnant in the first place given the plethora of available birth control methods, feminists always reply by whining about how men are irresponsible too.
However, this simply leads their argument onto very thin ice as they can’t feasibly have it both ways.
They want a woman to be able to terminate a pregnancy if she doesn’t want a child, but they also want to use Daddy Government to make a man, who doesn’t want a child, provide for it and its mother for 18 years.
Equality demands that a man have an equal right to reject responsibility for a child he does not want, which is one of the many reasons why I unequivocally rebuff the concept of equality in its entirety.
“It is no coincidence that Roe v. Wade followed just a few years after Griswold v. Connecticut. Griswold didn’t just lay the legal groundwork for the Roe ruling. It helped establish a cultural climate — admittedly, amid the larger context of the Sexual Revolution — that not only separated sex from its natural purpose but marked that separation as a public guarantee. It is not a very long leap at all from consequence-free sex as a constitutional right, and birth as a burden to be avoided when one so chooses, to the epidemic of abortion in which we now find ourselves”. -Declan Leary, National Review
Historically, dating back to 9 AD and the Lex Papia Poppaea in Imperial Rome, attempts to legislate demographic growth have not been very successful.
Yet the Dobbs v. Jackson decision by the Supreme Court and a host of challenges from new state laws have led many to wonder whether Griswold’s days are numbered.
Bearing in mind the sordid nature of the constitutional justification for Roe is essentially the whole of the Griswold ruling, if the foundations of Roe are unjustified, Griswold itself is unjustified by extension.