You're conclusions are either mistaken or disingenuous:

"...people still have access to birth control pills because another pharmacist can fill the prescription."

"...no one presented any evidence that women are having trouble filling prescriptions in South Dakota."

but that's not the point locomotive. Another pharmacist can fill the prescription? What about those pharmacists who take the prescription and won't give it back? What about women who need Plan B and that's the only pharmacy in their town and there's one anti-choice pharmacist on duty?

What this bill was about was to ensure that women will always have access to birth control, because anti-choice people don't just want to stop at criminalizing abortion, they'd like to take away contraception as well. This bill would basically say that that can NEVER HAPPEN, not that it's happening right now. It was insurance for women in the future.

What this shows is that at some point, anti-choice legislature would like to roll back rights on contraception use as well, because a lot of anti-choicers believe even the regular pill causes abortion.

Women should not have to go from pharmacy to pharmacy to fill a prescription. What medications a person takes are between them and their doctor. It is not the pharmacist's job to make prescribing decisions. It is the pharmacists job to dispense prescriptions, advise patients on possible side effects, interactions, appropriate use of the medication, etc. NO ONE, male or female, should have to drive from one pharmacy to the next to find a pharmacist who will fill a DOCTOR'S prescription. THose of us who live in large cities often forget that in rural areas (most of SD) there may not be another CVS right down the street. There may only be 1 or 2 pharmacys in the town, and often several miles between towns. That puts significant undue hardship on a woman to get her prescription filled. And it pisses me off that this sort of legislation is even introduced, much less passed!!

"...people still have access to birth control pills because another pharmacist can fill the prescription."

"...no one presented any evidence that women are having trouble filling prescriptions in South Dakota."

locomotivebreath1901,
You are being sarcastic right?

They take away nirth control and then they try and take away abortion. These kinds of examples by the anti-choicers should be visibly trumped by the media that they care nothing about reality or even reproductive control.

I'll believe this is about the pharmacist's concsience when I start seeing headlines about how men are being denied their viagara prescriptions.

Here's what I have a hard time understanding: You have these pharmacists who are denying birth control access to women because they don't believe that sex for any reason other than procreation is part of god's "plan". So why the hell do they go to the doctor at all? Call me an asshole, but I would be considerably less pissed off if they were at least consistent with their refusal to dispense medication. Your kid has pneumonia? Fuck it, let the kid die! It was probably part of God's "plan" for he or she to die anyway. Kid got the coup? Time to kiss little Johnny goodbye. Husband has tuburculosis? You get the picture.

I am, of course, being 100% sarcastic (and I am aware that Christian scientists do not believe in seeking medical treatment, but they are a minority).

Nevertheless, I find their logical fallacies are too great to overlook entirely. I second whoever made the comment about viagra being given to men without question. Unless they want all of the men, with their huge viagra induced boners, to have sex with eachother (which they probably don't because they're probably the types of people who do not support same-sex relationships), I suggest that they allow women access to birth control.

Please excuse some of my sweeping generalizations; I'm in full-fledged asshole mood today.

I think most of these problems would be no more if religion stayed the hell out of the law. Not everyone is a Christian/Catholic, therefore the ethics and moral beliefs that Catholicism/Christianity hold should have no part in deciding the law.
But I guess that's a big "duh" to everyone here.

Wow, well atleast they can no longer attempt to call themselves "pro-woman" as some pro-lifers do. Events like this just show them to be anti-woman, just as we have suspected all these years. Do they not think of the families with five kids, where the mother may want to having a good sex life without producing anymore? Oh wait, thats just her role as wife and woman, barefoot and pregnant...Othwerwise she must remain abstinent, but that sure does conflict with her role as husband pleaser extraordinaire!

Aside from that, have these people never heard of STIs? Or is that simply something that only happens to sluts anyways? *sarcasm*

No offence to you gals, but I'm glad I don't live in Dakota, or the states for that matter. Pretty scary down there for a chick :S

Why is it that we as women are STILL fighting for BIRTH CONTROL access?

Long after the supreme rationality of people like Margaret Sanger is the country accepting this kind of crap. I would bet a huge fucking majority of people are against these kinds of laws(particularly, the young).

Laws like this say to a woman, "you are not a full adult who has ultimate sway in your own life, and in your own birth control life," and "you have no rights to be an atheist and have your own religious perspectives because whoever does claim to be religious is right, solely because they claim religious beliefs."

Ultimately communicating blatantly:

WOMEN ARE SECOND CITIZEN IN THIS COUNTRY

Before you start feeling bad for those of us in SD, Meraydia, you might want to check the pharmacy refusal laws in your own state and with your state pharmacy board. This is a widespread problem and only getting attention here because SD tried to *lift* the restriction. A lot of these 'conscience clauses' are on the books all over the country (which is why they've tried to push the Access to Birth Control Act at the national level). I've personally never had an issue getting my BC, but it only takes one rouge pharmacist...