TPM: Kerry Becomes Latest Dem to Oppose Obama on Contraception

[beachmom]

27. Also, if a pharmacist has a religious conscience objection

to filling a prescription, then they really should choose a different career. Again, think of all the things we find immoral, but we can't just be running around saying this violates our conscience and begging a Senator to write a bill for us. Again, quoting Kevin Drum:

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/02/why-im-so-hardnosed-over-contraception-affair

So why am I really feeling so hard-nosed about this? The answer goes back a few years, to the controversy over pharmacists who refused to fill prescriptions for the morning-after pill. I was appalled: If you're a pharmacist, then you fill people's prescriptions. That's the job, full stop. If you object to filling prescriptions, then you need to find another occupation.

But of course, the entire right-wing outrage machine went into high gear over this. And it was at that point that my position shifted: if this was the direction things were going, then it was obvious that there would be no end to religious exemption arguments. The whole affair was, I thought, way over the top, and yet it got the the full-throated support of virtually every conservative pundit and talking head anyway. This was, in plain terms, simply a war on contraception.

You really should read the whole piece. I also am hard nosed about this issue and you don't seem to understand why. Maybe Kevin's piece will better explain it. Like Mass I think this is a stunning betrayal by the Senator on us, his supporters, and Obama, although disappointingly compromising at this point, at least took a brave stance when faced with the objections of Biden and others in his circle. Kerry never even did that.