Symposium Friday: Freedom of conscience for pharmacists
WHAT: “American Culture on Appeal” symposium series: “Rx for Plan B One-Step® and ella®, or Prescription for Religious Liberty?”*
WHEN: Friday, April 8, 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. EDT
WHERE: Alliance Defending Freedom, 440 First St. NW, Suite 600, Washington, D.C.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
The state of Washington permits pharmacies and pharmacists to refer customers for all kinds of business and convenience reasons but bans religiously motivated referrals. The Stormans case asks the U.S. Supreme Court whether a law that forces a family-owned pharmacy and two pharmacists to distribute life-ending drugs against their religious beliefs and conscience—yet allows referrals for secular reasons and has a history of intent to target religious providers—is in violation of the First Amendment.
Join Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Kristen Waggoner (Stormans lead counsel), Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ed Whelan, and pharmacist Rod Shafer (former CEO of the Washington State Pharmacy Association) for a panel discussion examining the far-reaching implications of this case for health care professionals. The Weekly Standard’s Mark Hemingway will moderate the panel.
There will be a Q&A time with the panelists. Kristen Waggoner and Greg Stormans will be available for media interviews immediately following the panel.
- Video: “Kindred Spirits – The Stormans Story” (3:53)
- Case resource page: Stormans v. Wiesman
If you missed the first installment of the “American Culture on Appeal” series, watch “Contraception in the Convent, Cathedral, and Classroom: Exploring the Obamacare Mandate in an Eight-Justice Court” on YouTube.
* “Plan B One-Step” is a registered trademark of Women’s Capital Corporation, and “ella” is a registered trademark of Laboratoire HRA Pharma SA sociedad anonima (sa).
Alliance Defending Freedom is an alliance-building, non-profit legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith.
RELATED LEGAL MATTER(S)
Related Resources
Video: Kindred Spirits (Stormans v. Wiesman)
Case snapshot: Stormans v. Wiesman
ABOUT Kristen Waggoner
Kristen Waggoner is the CEO, president, and general counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom: the world’s largest legal organization advancing every person’s God-given right to live and speak the truth. With more than 450 team members in 10 offices worldwide, ADF is at the forefront of today’s most consequential battles in law, public policy, and culture. Under Waggoner’s leadership—first as head of U.S. litigation and now as CEO—ADF has played a role in 80 U.S. Supreme Court victories and won 15 of its own cases before the court, including serving as legal counsel with Mississippi in the landmark Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. Waggoner personally argued several of ADF’s Supreme Court cases including the well-known Masterpiece Cakeshop and 303 Creative cases, winning major victories for free expression. She has the honor of leading ADF International, which, like its U.S. counterpart, defends religious liberty, free speech, parental rights, human life, and biological reality around the world. After law school, Waggoner clerked at the Washington Supreme Court and spent over 15 years at a Seattle law firm before joining ADF.