Reply #43: I'm not arguing what ~should~ be done...

[Sarbannes Oxley]

only what the actual legal situation might be.

How could this be construed as a "discimination" case? Your two examples are obvious discrimination: against someone because they are a woman or because they are black. How can one establish discrimination against "birth controllers", for lack of a better name.

If someone were not selling birth control to women while at the same time selling it to men-- we might have a case of discrimination. But not selling birth control to anyone is something of a different nature. I suppose it would be no different than a grocer deciding not to sell alcohol for some personal ethical reason. It may be stupid for business, but is it the grocer's right?

I don't know. All I'm saying is I think I read something about this very issue (pharmacists not selling birth control) several years ago and the main point was that they have that right-- right or wrong, so to speak.