A Minnesota jury ruled Friday that a pharmacist who refused to fill a prescription for a morning-after pill because of his 'beliefs' did not violate a woman's civil rights under state law but inflicted emotional harm worth $25,000.
did not violate a woman's civil rights under state law but inflicted emotional harm and said she should be entitled to $25,000 in damages.
Anderson, who filed the civil lawsuit against pharmacist George Badeaux in 2019 after she was forced to make a 100-mile round trip to get the contraceptive, said she intends to appeal the jury verdict to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. But Badeaux, who had been dispensing drugs from the McGregor Thrifty White pharmacy for four decades and is also a local preacher, refused to fill Anderson’s prescription, claiming it would violate his “beliefs,” according to the complaint.
Another pharmacist at a CVS in the city of Aitkin also blocked Anderson from getting the prescription filled. “I’m a Christian,” he said, according to the Star Tribune. “I believe in God. I love God. I try to live the way He would want me to live. That includes respecting every human being.”
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