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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Will the public support a pro-life pharmacy?

In my new book (remember, nothing says "Happy Spring!" to a loved one like a book exploring the relational dimension of conscience), I urge both sides in the conscience debate to spend less time trying to win the zero-sum legal battle over conscience, and more time building morally distinct venues for conscience in the marketplace.  As such, when I read that a pro-life pharmacy has failed to attract enough customer support to stay in business, I'm disappointed on a couple of levels: I'm sad that the moral claims of the pharmacy did not resonate enough within the pro-life community to achieve economic viability, and more selfishly, I'm protective of my thesis.  I still maintain that, if our society is serious about protecting conscience, it is infinitely preferable for a pro-life pharmacy to fail in the marketplace than to be prohibited by law.  It doesn't help, of course, when the market failure is met with a combination of glee and snark by observers.   

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I'm no businessman and I don't know any of the details here, but I would think this is mainly a business issue, not necessarily or primarily a cultural crisis. Pro-life Ob/Gyn/Fertility Care centers offering physician care thrive, including the one associated with this organization. I imagine it has something to do with people being willing to drive far to get pro-life Ob/Gyn/Fertility care. A bunch of such centers could keep doctors busy full time in a major metropolitan area like DC; and in the South or Midwest where the population is more socially conservative, centers and individual pro-life doctors have similar success. But maybe people aren't willing to go as far for more daily pharmaceutical needs.