Matthew Thill, a fresh-faced 24-year-old from Marshfield, says he’s probably the only one in his 2005 University of Wisconsin Pharmacy School graduating class who would refuse to dispense birth control pills for moral reasons.
A lifelong Catholic, Thill said he didn’t learn how birth control pills worked until he was a sophomore in college – from a Web site, actually. That shaped his belief that the hormones in the pills can destroy fertilized eggs before they implant in the uterine wall.