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
As the CEO, president, and general counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom, Kristen Waggoner leads the faith-based legal organization in protecting fundamental freedoms and promoting the inherent dignity of all people throughout the U.S. and around the world. Waggoner oversees the efforts of more than 400 ADF team members in seven global offices as well as nearly 5,000 network attorneys engaged in litigation, legislation, training, funding, and public advocacy. ADF also provides legal counsel to over 3,500 churches and ministries through its Ministry Alliance program and defends the persecuted church in dozens of countries. Since 2011, ADF has won 15 cases at the U.S. Supreme Court, including serving on Mississippi’s legal team in the case that overturned Roe v. Wade. Waggoner successfully argued three of those cases: Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Uzuebgunam v. Presczewski, and 303 Creative v. Elenis. She is a Peer Review Rated AV® Preeminent™ attorney in Martindale-Hubbell, who clerked for Justice Richard B. Sanders of the Washington Supreme Court after law school and served in private practice in Seattle for nearly 20 years.