Pharmacists refusing to fill birth control prescriptions written by qualified health care providers, based on personal and moral beliefs? Many women find it hard to fathom such a quandary. Could it be true that in the year 2005, some forty years after oral contraception was initially marketed, reproductive rights are yet again being challenged?

It has been seen all over the country, in companies as world renowned as Wal-Mart, which was among several pharmacies refusing women to obtain the pill in very recent years. Initially starting in 1996, when an Ohio woman was turned away by a Kmart pharmacist claiming to be following the 5th commandment, several incidents of the same nature have occurred, with similar claims of women