i've visiting my family (which is no longer the cohesive whole of the family living in the same house and getting along together) down in tennessee for the last ten days i have of freedom from a full time job. (it is what i call my last glimpse of a summer vacation before i have to actually be an adult and actually work for survival.) they live in a small town, with a dead mall and a Super Walmart.
i refuse to go to walmart for multiple reasons (it is big and scary, i'm disturbed at the idea of buying food at the same place as you buy clothing and stuff for the car, they censor music, it is a large corporation that is putting mom and pop shops out of business.... the list goes on)
but one of main reasons why i don't believe in supporting walmart boils down to their christian ethics influencing pharmacies.
i found myself out to dinner with just my dad and my two brothers... and we were talking about the evils of walmart. (but even as evil walmart is, they still end up shopping there because it is the only big store in town.) one of them being is that they refuse to fill any prescriptions for a certain form of contraceptives for women.
"What kind of contraceptives are you talking about?" my dad asked of me..
_morning after pills_
"But isn't RU486 illegal?" spoke my father
_that isn't a morning after pill_
"Yeah it is... I've heard that it is illegal" spoke my brother nick
_but it isn't a morning after pill, it is an abortion pill.. two completely different things_
"But they're illegal"...... "What is the difference?" spoke my father
_once induces abortions.. the other. the morning after pill, the drug which walmart refuses to stock.. actually prevents pregnancies from happening... in case of accidents._
"But that's illegal........." spoke my brother nick
*sigh*
somehow i wanted to insert into this circular sounding conversation, that i know from experience that morning after pills are legal. but how exactly am i supposed to approach the subject? (i physically went into a clinic, where i found out that i am a 1/4 of an inch shorter than i thought i was *sigh*.. and i got an actual prescription from a nurse who told me to avoid Walmart Pharmacies because they will not fill the prescription... ) should i tell my dad that i took two pills, 12 hours apart from the other, from the brand "plan b"... a drug that is going to become over the counter....... how do i even begin to get that thru to my siblings and my parents, who are lost in the bible belt???
7/07/2001
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