Ruling on refusing emergency contraception
A judge ruled that refusing to give Andrea Anderson emergency contraception
wasn't discrimination based on sex.
That conclusion makes sense to me: it didn't fall under the heading of
"discrimination" because there is no reason to believe the pharmacist
would have treated a male patient differently. In my view, it was an
injustice for the pharmacist to refuse to fill her prescription, but
it was a different kind of injustice.
There is something in the article I don't clearly understand. Did the
jury award Anderson $25k in damages (under some other rubric), or not?
If it did, that could be a very good outcome: perhaps sufficient to
convince those pharmacies not to let this happen again. But if so,
I'd like to understand the reasons for it.