Rx for drugstore discrimination: challenging pharmacy refusals to dispense prescription contraceptives under state public accommodations laws.

In January 2005, a Wisconsin mother of six children who experienced condom failure after intercourse obtained a prescription for emergency contraception1 and traveled to a Milwaukee Walgreens to fill the prescription.2 Instead of honoring the physician’s medical instructions, however, pharmacist Michelle Long refused to fill the prescription and “publicly berated” the customer, telling her, “You’re a murderer. I will not help you kill this baby. I will not have the blood on my hands.”3 Although the