{"id":12870,"date":"2006-12-14T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12870"},"modified":"2023-02-04T20:56:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T04:56:12","slug":"rx-for-drugstore-discrimination-challenging-pharmacy-refusals-to-dispense-prescription-contraceptives-under-state-public-accommodation-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12870","title":{"rendered":"Rx for Drugstore Discrimination: Challenging Pharmacy Refusals to Dispense Prescription Contraceptives under State Public Accommodation Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Charu A Chandrasekhar<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"154\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/albanylawrev.jpg\" alt=\"Albany Law Review\" class=\"wp-image-15964\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Albany Law Review<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>The problem of refusals to dispense prescription contraceptives in pharmacies is real and urgent. State public accommodations statutes offer an excellent vehicle in many states for challenging these discriminatory practices. State public accommodations lawsuits should ideally be brought solely against the pharmacy, not against the individual pharmacist who refuses to dispense a prescription. Pharmacies are best positioned to make institutional adjustments that ensure the filling of prescription contraceptives while accommodating the views and legal rights of their pharmacist employees. Moreover, a state public accommodations lawsuit will likely have a greater remedial and public relations impact if brought against a pharmacy as opposed to against an individual<br>pharmacist and will result in broader systemic change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Chandrasekhar CA. <a href=\"https:\/\/heinonline.org\/HOL\/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals\/albany70&amp;div=8&amp;id=&amp;page=\">Rx for Drugstore Discrimination: Challenging Pharmacy Refusals to Dispense Prescription Contraceptives under State Public Accommodation Laws<\/a>. Albany Law Rev. 2006;70:55-115.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charu A Chandrasekhar ExtractThe problem of refusals to dispense prescription contraceptives in pharmacies is real and urgent. State public accommodations statutes offer an excellent vehicle in many states for challenging these discriminatory practices. State public accommodations lawsuits should ideally be brought solely against the pharmacy, not against the individual pharmacist who refuses to dispense a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12870\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rx for Drugstore Discrimination: Challenging Pharmacy Refusals to Dispense Prescription Contraceptives under State Public Accommodation Laws&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,2,559,64,825],"tags":[1820],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-12870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-journal-article","category-law","category-morning-after-pill","category-pharmacy","tag-charu-a-chandrasekhar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin 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