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No medical professional has the right to exert their religious preferences on their clients and patients. The pharmaceutical industry especially cannot afford to allow its practitioners to delay or refuse treatment of clients due to the perceived use of any medical device, be it a pill or a syringe.

There are many religiously controversial medications and methods of treatment for many types of ailments which modern science if slowly finding an answer to. The contraceptive RU 486 or "the morning after pill" as it is commonly referred to is one such medication. While its primary use may be as a contraceptive which can prevent fertilization and implantation of the female ovum, it also has other uses of medicinal value.

Throughout the ages, many scientific advancements were considered dangerous and anti religious to many different beliefs. How could anyone get treatment if a pharmacist were to base their practice on whether or not they felt the medications that their clients were seeking were spiritually healthy for them? Especially when complete access to the patients full medical records, not just their medicinal record, would have to be available for examination before the pharmacist decided who could have what medication? What would they have women do, fill out a morality survey to insure the medication wasn't being used in what they considered an immoral way? Would we all have to sign a waiver saying we are not alcoholics before being allowed to buy over the counter cough syrup?

There was a time in this country when women could not buy simple contraceptive measures over the counter. Women were ostrasized and embarassed in public when attempting to buy birth control pills even when perscribed by a docter, and even could not buy condoms over the counter. That time has passed. The RU 486 pill is just another in a long line of controversial medications. The controversy over access to birth control of any kind caused by certain factions that would seek to limit womens reproductive freedoms. The same people who think that teaching kids about std's is the same as telling a teenager to have sex. But that's another point altogether. The fact that the medication is used only as occasional usage for emergency contraceptive situations seems to be ignored for the fear that women will use this medication as a regular form of birth control.

Anyone with any common sense would realize that if a woman is self concious enough to want to prevent ovum implantation in her uterus she

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