Woman-her arthritis medication "Oh Hold" until they can verify she won't be using it for abortion
When Alabama nurse Melissa went to pick up her regular prescription for rheumatoid arthritis last week, she was told the drug was "on hold" while the pharmacist checked she wasn't going to use it to induce an abortion.
"He said, 'Well I have to verify if you're on any contraceptives to prevent pregnancy.' The hell you do," she recalled thinking.
Melissa -- who is in her early forties and asked to be identified only by her first name for fear that speaking out might affect her livelihood -- then called her doctor, who succeeded in having the pharmacy in the southern US state release the medicine.
"I picked it up a couple hours later, but I felt violated," she told AFP, explaining she had had a hysterectomy six years ago, and that her lack of recent contraceptive history may have led the pharmacist to suspect she was pregnant.
https://news.yahoo.com/us-abortion-ruling-threatens-access-011837332.html
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White House Proposes Slight Boost in Aid for Afghan Forces
https://www.voanews.com/a/south-central-asia_white-house-proposes-slight-boost-aid-afghan-forces/6206351.html
May 28, 2021
The United States is hoping more money will help make up for the absence of U.S. combat troops on the ground in Afghanistan.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday unveiled his proposed $715 billion defense budget for fiscal year 2022, including $3.3 billion for Afghan forces. The request is $300 million more than what the U.S. gave Afghanistan this past fiscal year. If approved by Congress, the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund money would help cover equipment and training requirements, as well as infrastructure, for the 352,000 members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.
"We believe that given that we're pulling out of Afghanistan, we need to provide some additional security support for the forces there," Anne McAndrew, the Pentagon's acting Under Secretary of Defense and Chief Financial Officer, told reporters.
Military planners are also requesting $8.9 billion to cover so-called "direct war costs" in Afghanistan, about a $4 billion reduction from the previous year.
McAndrew said some of that money will help cover residual expenses from the current withdrawal from Afghanistan as well as help pay for "an over-the-horizon capability outside Afghanistan."
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I'm not suggesting anything else.
Just buy 'em.
And carry 'em.
That's all.
disgustedly,
Bright
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for those who can't figure that out)
Guess that's how they justify it.
DUNNO?
she WAS violated!!!!! I'm so freaking mad right now I could spit nails. 
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OMG - I know my BP is going up just thinking about this, and reading the Yahoo article. Absolutely infuriating!!!
I wonder if the pharmacist would like me to withhold their "fresh from the O.R." post-op medication - after all, I wouldn't want them to get addicted or anything, especially since it's "my call" whether or not to give them their pain med (well technically it is my call, but I don't withhold pain medications unless there's a damn good reason, like it's too soon, their respiration rate, or other medical indications. AND at that point - I'm calling the doctor about the patient.)
ETA: I'd bet a billion $ the pharmacist has NO issue dispensing Viagra, Cialis, etc.
On the other hand, if Melissa's doctor happened to be a woman, they probably wouldn't have believed her.
This is both bizarre and outrageous!
