A woman is suing the only pharmacy within 50 miles of her home for refusing to fill a prescription for contraception

A woman is suing the only pharmacy within 50 miles of her home for refusing to fill a prescription for contraception (the morning-after pill).

Such situations are likely to arise in the depopulated rural parts of the US, where stores of any kind are few and far between, and anti-abortion fanatics are numerous.

I am suspicious of any pharmacy business that gives its individual staff the privilege to veto a prescription. No supermarket would tolerate a sales clerk who refused to sell certain products — if you won't do the whole job, you would need to find some other job. I suspect that the owners or managers of those pharmacies are themselves anti-abortion fanatics, and that letting staff veto prescriptions is a intentional deniable way of attacking abortion and birth contraception while denying their responsibility in the matter.

It's clear that any pharmacy, when open for business, must be legally required to fill any valid prescription presented by anyone.