Wal-Mart ordered to carry emergency contraceptive pills in Massachusetts

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Wal-Mart ordered to carry emergency contraceptive pills in Massachusetts

Andrew Wood, JURIST NEWS, Tuesday, February 14, 2006, at 4:54 PM ET

(JURIST NEWS) The Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy (official backgrounder) on Tuesday (February 14, 2006) ordered the state's 44 Wal-Marts and 4 Sam's Club stores to carry emergency contraception pills at their pharmacies. Previously Wal-Mart (corporate website) only carried the "morning after" pill in Illinois, a requirement of state law.

Wal-Mart was sued earlier this month (JURIST report) by three women alleging the retail giant was in violation of the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act (text) which requires all pharmacies in the state to provide all "commonly prescribed" medications. Last year the Massachusetts state legislature passed a law (text; JURIST report) requiring hospitals, but not specifically all pharmacies, to carry emergency contraception. Wal-Mart has said it will comply with the order. AP has more.

. . . more at . . . http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/02/wal-mart-ordered-to-carry-emergency.php

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So, in other words, Wal-Mart will not voluntarily comply in filling prescriptions for the "morning after" pill unless Wal-Mart is forced to do so by aggrieved people who must hire plaintiffs lawyers to file lawsuits/complaints in state courts and/or state regulatory agencies/boards! Cute! Wal-Mart "made in America" religion-into-law!
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The Boston Globe newspaper reports this morning (Wednesday, February 15, 2006) . . . that maybe . . .
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State orders Wal-Mart to sell morning-after pill
Retailer says it will consider stocking drug at all US stores

by Bruce Mohl, Boston Globe (newspaper) Staff | February 15, 2006

Wal-Mart said yesterday (Tuesday, February 14, 2006) it will start stocking and selling the emergency contraceptive drug Plan B at its 44 Massachusetts pharmacies and is giving serious consideration to carrying the drug at all of its stores nationwide.

The world's biggest retailer acted after the state Board of Registration in Pharmacy voted unanimously to require Wal-Mart to stock and dispense Plan B, a high dose of hormones that women can take three to five days after unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy.

The only other state where Wal-Mart sells the so-called morning-after pill is Illinois, where a state law requires it. Elsewhere, Wal-Mart has refused to stock the drug for undisclosed "business reasons."

Dan Fogleman, a Wal-Mart spokesman, said the Arkansas-based chain would comply with the Massachusetts pharmacy board's ruling ''as soon as reasonably possible" and was reviewing its stance on Plan B nationally.

. . . more at . . . http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/02/15/state_orders_wal_mart_to_sell_morning_after_pill/

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