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Nice Talk From Pro-Life Druggists

There I was, all set to jump up in defense of those Pharmacists for Life whom Will and the Washington Post wrote about. Given how poorly they're likely to fare in the marketplace, their position struck me as both principled and doomed; how could I resist? I don't happen to agree with them, because limiting access to birth control seems so likely to lead to more abortions. But they have the right to sell only what they feel OK about selling, don't they? What's more American than that? Then, alas, I glanced at their Web site, which refers to an "abortoholic babe from NARAL'' and calls Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, "the Dictator of the Midwest, Guv 'Slobodan' Blagojevich ... the totalitarian abortoholic Serb reigning in Springfield, but who much rather prefers the shores of Lake Michigan to the boorish 'fundies' downstate as the kook left-wing radicals refer to anyone with Christian beliefs. Now, there's tolerance!'' Where? You guys are on your own. (And really, isn't that how you want it?)