Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2010
Source
Hypatia
Volume
25
Issue
1
First Page
11
Last Page
30
URL with Digital Object Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01082.x
Abstract
This paper addresses the likely impact on women of being denied emergency contraception (EC) by pharmacists who conscientiously refuse to provide it. A common view—defended by Elizabeth Fenton and Loren Lomasky, among others—is that these refusals inconvenience rather than harm women so long as the women can easily get EC somewhere else nearby. I argue from a feminist perspective that the refusals harm women even when they can easily get EC somewhere else nearby.
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