When I initially read this article in the Washington Post on pro-life pharmacies I SURELY did not think it was going to relate to integrative medicine, but low and behold it did… in a COMPLETELY bizarre way.

pro life pharmacies are:

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.

Basically they wont carry condoms, birth control pills or the Plan B emergency contraceptive, but will sell Viagra.

Others also refuse to sell tobacco, rolling papers or pornography. Many offer “alternative” products, including individually compounded prescription drugs, as well as vitamins and homeopathic and herbal remedies.

Greenberger said. “We’ve seen an alarming development of pharmacists over the last several years refusing to fill prescriptions, and sometimes even taking the prescription from the woman and refusing to give it back to her so she can fill it in another pharmacy.”

I support integrative medicine, but this is an integration which is, at best, random. I would like to know why CAM therapies are approved in these pharmacies? What is that decision based on?