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Targeting Women

Planned Parenthood has up a photo petetion drive to try to get Target to change their policy.

Target does not guarantee that all prescriptions for birth control, including emergency contraception, will be filled in-store, without discrimination or delay.

Please take a few minutes and send in a picture for the photo petetion. You have to give up most rights to the image, but I'm sure everyone can find one they're willing to give away to PPFA for this cause.

My letter to Target. You can send one here.

Corporate HQ, Target

I am appalled by Target's policy that allows pharmacists to send women to a different store to have their birth control prescriptions filled.

Appalled, and disgusted. You're filling Viagra. How can you do that? How can you run these happy, jumpy, fun commercials, and then send the message that a man's ability to get an erection is more important than my having immediate access to Emergency Contraception after I've been raped? How dare you ask me to go to another store? How dare your pharmacist judge any woman walking up to that counter, not knowing what she's going through? How dare you have policies like this, that cause *more* abortions!

You are pandering to a small portion of the population and hoping the rest of us don't care. Well, I care. I'm posting your contact information to my blog - my friends care. My family cares. I'm telling everyone I know not to spend their money in your stores this holiday season. I won't be spending money with you until this policy is changed to one that requires pharmacists fill all prescriptions in-store, and that your pharmacies carry trauma saving drugs like Plan B.

Posted by Liz at December 7, 2005 9:08 PM