Tuesday’s hearing on the “conscience bill,” designed to protect pharmacists from birth control pills, featured a Catholic UW-Madison pharmacy student who had “sleepless nights” trying to decide whether to continue in pharmacy school after he learned – on the Internet, no less – that birth control pills can destroy fertilized eggs. He wants the government to protect his religious right to refuse to give out drugs that doctors prescribe for patients.
I find all of this concern for my eggs touching; it makes me want to break out into the old Monty Python song, “Every Sperm Is Sacred.”