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Pray for the persecuted misogynist
12 October 2004Neil Noesen, a former K-mart pharmacist who refused to fill a college student's birth control prescription or even transfer it to another pharmacist who was willing to fill it, defended himself to the judge presiding over his disciplinary hearing by saying, "'I could have trouble sleeping at night. I could be suffering the worst kind of pain: spiritual pain.'" Well, we don't usually think pain can be objectively compared, but we'll take Noesen at his word this time. So to judge his defense, we propose a side-by-side comparison. Noesen will find a way to carry a pregnancy to term, decide whether or not he'll be able to keep the child as a young college student, deal with whether or not the other party to the pregnancy will stick around, deal with how he's going to pay for medical bills, clothing, food and child-care as a potentially single parent, deal with the diminished opportunities available to a child born before its parents were ready to be parents. Oh yeah, and we'd like to see him squeeze it out. So, uh, how does that stack up against your insomnia, Neil?
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