Missouri is proposing a bill that would reclassify Plan B as "abortion-inducing medication." The legislation, H.B. 1625, would also protect pharmacists who refused to give out Plan B. Under the proposed law, they wouldn't get punishment from the state nor could they be the subject of lawsuits for not filling a Plan B prescription. According to legal analysis from NARAL Missouri, "In allowing pharmacies to blanketly refuse to fill prescriptions—goods sold to the public—that are prescribed only to women, for their 'peace, comfort, health, and welfare,' the bill arguably violates the public accommodations prong of the Missouri Human Rights Act." [Feministing, NARAL Missouri]

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