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Four states currently allow a pharmacist's moral or religious objections to trump an individual's right to get a prescribed medication, and some 20 other states are considering similar legislation. Meanwhile, legislators in California, Illinois and several other states are looking to pass laws ensuring patients' access to all prescribed medications, regardless of a pharmacist's beliefs. We look at the moral and legal arguments of this debate.
Barbara Boxer, Senator, D- CA, U.S. Senate
Steve Aden, Chief Litigation Counsel for Christian Legal Society's Center for Law and Religious Freedom
Rachel Laser, Senior Counsel, Pharmacy Refusal Project, National Women’s Law Center
Frederic A. Lombardo, pharmacist and assistant professor, College of Medicine, the School of Pharmacy, Howard University
Anonymous Anonymous, pro-life pharmacist from Chicago, Illinois area
How do baby birds learn to sing? Do birds have regional accents or dialects? A researcher who has studied birds for more than thirty years explains how and why birds sing, and what we can learn by better understanding their songs.
Donald Kroodsma, author "The Singing Life of Birds" (Houghton Mifflin)
After days of public unrest, Ecuador's Congress President Luiz Gutierrez has been forced to resign. We look at what led to this, including the President's role in disbanding the country's Supreme Court.
Michael Shifter, Vice President for Policy at Inter-American Dialogue; and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service
Monte Reel, foreign correspondent, Washington Post
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