Pharmacist found "No Guilty" of denying morning after pill to woman in Minnesota
Jury verdict When a Minnesota pharmacist refused to give a lady a morning-after pill, he wasn't being discriminatory.
After local preacher and pharmacist George Badeaux declined to comply with Andrea Anderson's request, the McGregor Thrifty White pharmacy was sued by Andrea Anderson under the Minnesota Human Rights Act.
The lawsuit claims that Anderson, a McGregor mother and foster parent, had to travel three hours round trip to Brainerd in the middle of a winter to acquire her contraceptives.
However, the jury determined on Friday that sex-based discrimination had not taken place. But Anderson did experience $25,000 worth of emotional anguish because to Badeaux and the pharmacy.
After the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade in June, there has been a nationwide discussion regarding access to contraception and reproductive health care, which has led to the civil suit.
Last Monday, the US House approved a bill that would protect women's right to contraception.