Walgreens Beefs Up Pharmacist Training After Woman Denied Drug
- Arizona store refused to dispense miscarrriage medicine
- State law allows pharmacists to refuse drugs based on belief
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Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. will revamp its training after an Arizona woman said she was humiliated when a pharmacist, citing personal objections, refused to fill a prescription to treat her miscarriage.
In an incident that sparked heated commentary on social media, a pharmacist at a Walgreens store in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria wouldn’t dispense a miscarriage drug for Nicole Mone Arteaga, who had just found out that her baby’s development had stopped.