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Boycott DMC Pharmacy

DMC PharmacyA Pharmacy that Doesn't Respect Your Choices Doesn't Deserve Your Business
 
This month, DMC Pharmacy opens in the Sully Place Shopping Center off Route 50 in Chantilly. 
 
The pharmacy will refuse to stock birth control, emergency contraception or even condoms.  

 
Birth Control is Basic Healthcare for Women
98% of American women will use some form of contraception in their lifetimes. So why is DMC Pharmacy refusing to sell it?
 
A Decision for Women, Not Pharmacists
The decision of whether to get pregnant is one that should be made by a woman—not by other people who want to impose their beliefs on her. But a growing number of pharmacists are refusing to fill women’ legally prescribed birth control prescriptions—and now there is one in Virginia.

Send a message that you won't support pharmacists who impose their own beliefs on women seeking access to contraception. Sign the pledge to boycott DMC Pharmacy in Chantilly. 

Additional Information about Access to Contraception in Virginia
Improving access to birth control is at the forefront of our efforts to prevent unintended pregnancy and reduce the need for abortion. For the 98 percent of American women who use some form of contraception during their lives, birth control is basic, essential health care. More than 40 million women of reproductive age are sexually active and want to prevent unintended pregnancy. [Guttmacher Institute, Facts in Brief: Contraceptive Use (Feb. 2005)]

Unfortunately, 40 years after the Supreme Court struck down a ban on birth control, the far right still tries to block women’s access to contraception.  In fact, they are engaged in an intentional campaign to blur the lines between contraception and abortion in the minds of legislators and the public. 

  • In Virginia, the Birth Control Protection Act, a bill that would clearly define contraception as different from abortion (something that seems to be common sense, right?) has failed to pass for six years in a row.
  • Virginia law...
    1. does NOT require pharmacists to fill all legal, valid prescriptions;
    2. does NOT require insurers that cover prescription drugs in general to provide coverage of the full range of FDA-approved contraceptive drugs and devices;
    3. does NOT require emergency rooms to offer information about emergency contraception to sexual assault victims; and
    4. does NOT require public schools to include comprehensive, medically accurate information about contraception in Family Life Education curriculum.
  • Virginia is ranked 41st of 50 states in how well it meets the need for subsidized contraceptive services and supplies (currently serving only 26% of women in need of such services).
If you or the women in your life use contraception, we need you to add your voice to this issue.  Take the pledge to boycott pharmacies that refuse to fill birth control prescriptions.  Then take the next step by downloading our petition and circulating it among your family and friends. 
     

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