A young woman from Saguenay, Que., says she left a local pharmacy feeling shamed after a pharmacist refused to sell her emergency oral contraception, better known as the morning-after pill, because it went against his religious beliefs.
“I felt bad, I felt really judged,” said the 24-year-old woman, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal.
The woman said the pharmacist told her prescribing her the pill “was not in his values” and told her to either go to another store or wait around for another pharmacist to show up who could prescribe it to her.
“I was a bit flabbergasted, I didn’t know what
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