STATEMENT FROM GOV. ROD BLAGOJEVICH

"Today we learned that Pat Robertson's American Center for Law and Justice has filed a lawsuit to prevent us from ensuring that women have equal access to health care. We will vigorously defend a woman's right to get her prescription for birth control filled without delay, without hassle and without a lecture. If a pharmacy wants to be in the business of dispensing contraceptives, then it must fill prescriptions without making moral judgments. Pharmacists - like everyone else - are free to hold personal religious beliefs, but pharmacies are not free to let those beliefs stand in the way of their obligation to their customers."