US jury finds in favor of pharmacist who denied woman morning-after pill

Gender Justice, a legal advocacy nonprofit, filed the lawsuit on behalf of Andrea Anderson in 2019, though the case did not reach trial until Monday. Photograph: Matt Mills Mcknight/Reuters

A Minnesota jury found that a pharmacy did not discriminate against a woman when it refused to give her the morning-after pill.

The pharmacist gave “belief” as the reason for refusing to fill the prescription for emergency contraception. Although the jury decided that the woman’s rights had not been violated, it did say that the emotional damage caused by the decision amounted to $25,000.