A new law in Kansas will allow pharmacists to refuse to dispense medications they believe might cause an abortion. The Health Care Rights of Conscience Act, signed into law by Governor Sam Brownback on May 14, 2012, “will bar anyone...

A Washington State regulation requiring pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptives was declared to be unconstitutional by US district court Judge Ronald B. Leighton because it violates pharmacists’ right to conscientious objection. The ruling is part of Leighton’s decision in a...

A conscience clause bill (Senate Bill 14) has been introduced in the Alaska legislature and is currently being considered in the state’s senate. The bill would provide “for the protection and reasonable accommodation of a health care provider's expression of...

Published in the March 2006 Delaware State Board of Pharmacy Newsletter There have been questions concerning the professional obligations of licensed pharmacists to provide services they may religiously, morally, or ethically oppose. There is no Delaware Pharmacy Act or Regulation...