A protest has broken out at Ralph's Thriftway, a local drugstore, over the Plan B contraceptive pill. Kevin Stormans, one of the store co-owners, said the decision was one based on morals. It is unclear wether or not the morning-after pill aborts a pregnancy, an issue that Ralph's opposses.
Activists have launched a three day picket protest outside the business and plan to boycott Ralph's for the entire month of July. Just a month? The right to maintain your own reproductive freedom is only worth not shopping at Ralph's for a month? As a privately owned business, Ralp's has the right to sell or not sell whatever it chooses. Picketing and yelling at incoming shoppers isn't going to change the moral beliefs of the owners anyway. Save your energy for the unprotected sex and carefree liasions you are so desparately trying to protect.
So what's the reasonable approach? Write a letter to the owners expressing your regret over their decision to not sell this pill, inform them that you will no longer be a customer and that you plan on asking others you know not to shop there, and then stop shopping there.
*Chaseblogger supports a woman's right to choose, a business owners right to sell or not sell what they choose, and an American citizen's right to write about it.
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