Official calls on pharmacists to boycott contraception pill

The Deputy Marshall of the Mazowieckie Voivodship Wojciech Wierzejski from the Polish Family League (LPR) has called on pharmacies to boycott a newly registered contraceptive drug, as according to him it is, "Doubtful from the moral point of view." Many local pharmacies received a letter from his offi ce on Tuesday and the following day an official note on the subject was pub lished and signed by him. Wierzejski, "Hopes for understanding and help from the pharmacies in spreading the boycott". The whole affair is about the Hun garian medicine Postinor Duo, which according to the Deputy Marshall, "Kills the first form of life, which is an embryo," and apparently has significant side effects. "I am disgusted, as the drug is prescriptive, and we know bet ter the consequences of taking the drug, than Mr. Marshall. Pharmacist list ens to what the doctor says and do not argue with him," said one drug store owner. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 5) M.M.