Walgreens goes to war against pharmacists: 4 are fired for refusing to dispense abortifacients

Walgreens spokesman Michael Polzin had no qualms gloating over firing 4 pharmacists for refusing to kill their smallest patients in utero


Subject: Walgreens fires four pharmacists


Walgreens fires four pharmacists for refusal to kill humans early in
development---- PFLI has this news on their front page and has
disseminated it to the mailing list.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/metroeast/story/8DD90CA62319C31C862570C80068E7A1?OpenDocument

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I cannot exaggerate the importance of these cases. Walgreens company reps went from store to store in the middle of the night "picking off" pharmacists who refused to sign their outrageous "policy."
Kind of like "drive by" firing. Which is not unusal in IL where Hiz Honor "Slobodan" Blagojevich has a de facto policy of "religious cleansing" of the pharmacist ranks. In the old days, when the state and private business hooked up like this to implement social policy they had a word for it: fascism.

If Walgreens is not held accountable for this, no pharmacist in any state is safe. Remember, Illinois has the best conscience laws in the country. That the governor and the private sector feel free to ignore those laws is chilling to say the least. Oh, yeah, one of the top dogs from Walgreens also happens to sit on the State Board of Pharmacy. What a coinkidink!

I encourage Americans of who think having a good conscience is important to avoid shopping at Walgreens, and pray for the pharmacists who stand up for human life. Feel free to contact Mr Polzin at Walgreens to let him know politely and firmly how you view this situation:

Michael Polzin describes his job as:
"As manager of external communications, I'm responsible for all of the company's communications with the media. I also handle financial news releases, community group presentations, the Press Room section of Walgreens.com and other executive communications."

Yet this same man stated last summer, said that Walgreens pharmacists wouldn't be held responsible for the insanely high number of scripts they sometimes have to dispense. This was in a news story about the Chicago area pharmacists striking due to working conditions that compromised patient safety.


Michael Polzin
200 Wilmot Road
Deerfield, Ill. 60015
847-914-2925
michael.polzin@walgreens.com


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Pittsburgh, quo vadis?

Even as it recovers from the nightmare hangover of a thunderous trouncing by the Indianapolis Colts yesterday evening, the city at the confluence of the Monongahela, Ohio and Allegheny Rivers continues into its ever-so-more liberal, anti-life downspiral.

Long entrenched and run by left wing Democrat regimes, this beautiful city in Western Pennsylvania is moving to further restrict free speech in an assinine new proposal from the Pittsburgh City Council.

Like a bull rush from Dwight Freeney and Corey Simon, the masonically-centered rulers on the Mon will find this anti-First Amendment proposal shot down at the slightest of judicial reviews. Of course, Planned Barrenhood has sprinkled their twisted support of this restriction of freedom of speech against baby killing.

Mind you, the leftist leaders of the 'Burgh got away for many years with the "nightmare in Pittsburgh" when modest pro-life women were assaulted, beaten, fondled and heaped on with the what seemed like the devil's own vituperation. They will find this time it will not go so well as beating up defenseless passive women. This time those whose freedom of speech to witness and defend the most defenseless of our brothers and sisters will not go so quietly into that night or for years of beaureaucratic red-tape judicial proceedings.

This proposal deserves only one fate: A requiem mass without any of the pomp or circumstance.

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Proposal would ban protests near abortion clinic doors
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Two Pittsburgh City Council members introduced legislation today that would govern protests near clinics, hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

The legislation, sponsored by Councilmen Doug Shields and William Peduto, would create a 100-foot zone around entrances to healthcare facilities. People could protest within that zone but could not go within 8 feet of a person seeking to use the facility without that person's consent.

It would bar any protests within 15 feet of the entrance to a healthcare facility.
The legislation is meant to give police a means of preventing violent confrontations in front of healthcare facilities, said Kim Evert, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania, which supports the proposed ordinance.

She said protestors frequently target clinics that provide abortion services, like Allegheny Reproductive Health Center in East Liberty. "There needs to be an ability to separate people in these very intense emotional situations," she said.

She noted that issues like stem cell research and genetic engineering could inspire protests near hospitals and research facilities. Council could vote tentatively on the legislation Dec. 7 but may opt to schedule a public hearing instead.

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from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, http://www.post-gazette.com/.

NZ experimenting on aborted babies from US

Schaize! The Frankenstein wannabees are hard at work down under in the land of Lord of the Rings.
Read on for this piece which even Shelley would not have dreamed of or written about!

BoMeister

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10350816

New Zealand Herald

October 18, 2005

NZ experiments on aborted US babies

By Martin Johnston

Researchers at Auckland University are conducting eye experiments on aborted human fetuses imported from the United States.

The university confirmed this yesterday after it was revealed by journalist Ian Wishart in the magazine Investigate.

The research has been denounced by an anti-abortion group, which has likened it to the medical experiments conducted under Germany's Nazi regime. But the university rejects the comparison and has defended the research, led by Dr Keely Bumsted O'Brien.

The study using fetal tissue aims to improve understanding of vision loss by examining the macula, the central part of the retina. Macular degeneration is common in the elderly.

In 2003, Dr Bumsted O'Brien published a study based on experiments using "snap frozen intact human fetal eyes ranging from fetal week nine ... to 18".

She did not return the Herald's calls. Nor did the university's deputy vice-chancellor (research), Professor Tom Barnes, who was in a university council meeting, but he issued a statement which said the latest study used donated human fetal tissue segments, including the macula, which were preserved in the US and imported to New Zealand.

Professor Barnes said strict protocols and a rigorous approval process governed the research. "Our information shows that approval processes for provision of the tissue by donor families have been followed correctly," he said.

Herald inquiries suggest it is unlikely that any fetuses aborted at New Zealand clinics or hospitals are being used in research. The Health Ministry's national database of its ethics committees dating from 1988 contains no record of applications for any such research.

The Canterbury District Health Board's clinical director of gynaecology and oncology, Dr Michael Laney, said no fetal tissue from the board's hospital was being used for research.

"We made a pact years ago that we were determined not to be seen to be making money out of these women."

The Capital and Coast board's head of obstetrics and gynaecology, Dr John Tait, said no New Zealand fetal tissue was used for research - that he knew of - as it would be so controversial.

The Voice for Life Auckland branch president, Bernard Moran, described the latest Auckland University experiments as a shocking watershed.

"We regard it as Auschwitz," he said.

"We knew it was happening in the States and Russia. We certainly didn't think it would happen here."

Fetal law

* Experiments using tissue from aborted fetuses are legal, but they are rare in New Zealand.

* Fetal tissue is excluded from the Human Tissue Act.

* It is expected to be covered in new legislation next year.

* It is proposed that the new law will make it clear that consent will be needed to use tissue from aborted fetuses and stillborn babies.

* The National Ethics Advisory Committee is writing guidelines on research using such tissue.

Clarification: An earlier version of this story included a reference to an $827,930, three-year grant Dr Keely Bumsted O'Brien recovered from the state-funded Health Research Council. This was for animal research. The council did not fund the fetal research.