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DIVINE MERCY CARE’S PRO-LIFE PHARMACY OPENS IN CHANTILLY, VA

My friend sent this to me today by email and I thought I'd share it with all... PRESS RELEASE DIVINE MERCY CARE’S PRO-LIFE PHARMACY OPENS IN CHANTILLY, VA Contact: Bob Laird - 703-934-5552 (office)/703-732-0681 (cell) (10/21/08, Chantilly, VA) – DMC Pharmacy opened today in Chantilly, VA with a blessing of the building by the Most Reverend Paul S. Loverde, Bishop of Arlington. The DMC pharmacy is the newest addition to the Divine Mercy Care family of healthcare services. DMC Pharmacy is a pro-life pharmacy specifically designed to meet the pharmaceutical needs in a prolife, pro-woman, and pro-family atmosphere. Located in the Sully Place Shopping Center, in the heart of Chantilly, VA, DMC Pharmacy provides a convenient opportunity for families and individuals to have their prescriptions filled and their pharmaceutical questions answered in a friendly environment. Divine Mercy Care is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Catholic healthcare organization in Northern Virginia that also operates the

Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: 'Pro-Life' Drugstores Market Beliefs

My email "friend" gave me a "heads up" on this story by Rob Stein from the Washington Post abstracted here on the Pew Forum . It is on a drugstore opening in Chantilly, VA which will be "pro-life." The pharmacy is one of a small but growing number of drugstores around the country that have become the latest front in a conflict pitting patients' rights against those of health-care workers who assert a "right of conscience" to refuse to provide care or products that they find objectionable. "The United States was founded on the idea that people act on their conscience -- that they have a sense of right and wrong and do what they think is right and moral," said Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel at the Thomas More Society, a Chicago public-interest law firm that is defending a pharmacist who was fined and reprimanded for refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control pills. "Every pharmacist has the right to do the sa