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...Wal-Mart, a company better known for its conservative sensibilities, handed a victory to pro-abortion-rights groups today with its decision to begin stocking the Plan B emergency contraceptive, also known as the ?morning-after pill,? in all of its 4,000 pharmacies in the U.S., starting March...
...move effectively heads off any further legal action against the company over access to the drug. In Massachusetts and Illinois, where state laws require any pharmacy that stocks ordinary contraceptives to also stock Plan B, Wal-Mart has already agreed to offer the drug. ?We expect more states to require us to sell emergency contraceptives in the months ahead,? said Ron Chomiuk, vice president of Wal-Mart?s pharmacy division. ?Because of this, and the fact that this is an FDA-approved product, we feel it is difficult to justify being the country?s only major pharmacy chain not selling...
...While Wal-Mart has never publicly objected to Plan B on principle (it says Plan B simply isn?t in great demand), it has nevertheless faced intense ideological pressure. ?We?ve had women?s groups who felt that we should be selling it; we?ve had conservative Christian organizations that felt Wal-Mart was the last one taking a stand again the drug,? says Mona Williams, a spokeswoman for the company. Wal-Mart has been considering the change for months; at a meeting in January of store managers, several lobbied for adding Plan B to the usual stock, arguing that...
...variant of ordinary birth control pills and works in a similar way, by preventing ovulation and fertilization. It can also work by inhibiting a fertilized egg from implanting itself in the uterus, a process that anti-abortion-rights advocates say is effectively an abortion. In a concession to opponents, Wal-Mart will keep its policy allowing individual pharmacists with moral qualms about Plan B to turn a customer down, as long as they refer her to another pharmacist or nearby pharmacy. (That policy will not apply in Massachusetts or Illinois...
...quickly as possible. Beyond an attack, Meredith is worried about the cascading consequences should the U.S. close its ports after a terrorist incident occurs. Because 90% of the world's general cargo moves inside these boxes, when boxes stop moving, so do assembly lines. Shelves at retailers like Wal-Mart and Home Depot start to go bare...