Taxpayers to pay for the pills
MONTREAL, December 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Quebec today announced that pharmacists may dispense the abortifacient morning after pill with the bill for the pills being picked up by taxpayers. The pharmacists doling out the pills were required to take a four hour course on how to administer a consultation with those demanding the abortifacients. The consultation fee – upwards of $30 – will not be covered, according to a report in the Montreal Gazette. Both the pills and doctor’s exam are free at hospitals.
Normand Cadieux, managing director of the Association Québécoise des Pharmaciens-Propriétaires (Association of Quebec Pharmacists) said that pharmacists are obliged to become certified, unless they have religious objections to the use of the pill. The paper reports that four thousand out of the province’s 5,700 pharmacists have already taken the course and more will follow it by correspondence.
See the coverage in the Gazette at: https://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/story.asp?id= {8C5A48E4-9E0D-4CF9-9149-863946A22BB3}