{"id":3664,"date":"2009-02-10T17:10:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T17:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/02\/10\/pharmacist-wins-newspaper-corrections-over-story\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:31:31","slug":"pharmacist-wins-newspaper-corrections-over-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/10\/pharmacist-wins-newspaper-corrections-over-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacist wins newspaper corrections over story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Newspapers corrected over Pharmacists\u2019 refusal to offer morning-after-pill<\/h3>\n<div><strong>THE Pharmacists\u2019 Defence Association has won corrections from two newspapers over a story which implied a Muslim pharmacist refused to give a couple the morning-after-pill because of his religion.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The organisation complained to the Press Complaints Commission about\u00a0articles which appeared in The Manchester Evening News and The Daily Star which referred to an incident at a Sainsbury\u2019s chemist in Lancashire in May last year.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Pharmacists\u2019 Defence Association complained that both articles inaccurately reported that a pharmacist\u2019s refusal to provide emergency contraception to a couple was based on his \u201creligious beliefs\u201d and implied that this was because he was a Muslim. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Association said that the pharmacist had \u2013 as allowed by the pharmacist\u2019s ethical Code \u2013 declined to provide the service on \u201cpersonal and ethical\u201d grounds and had directed them to an alternative pharmacy despite receiving racist abuse from the man.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Responding to the complaint both the Manchester Evening News and The Daily Star published a correction to their earlier stories clarifying that \u201cthe refusal was made on moral, not religious, grounds\u201d.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newspapers corrected over Pharmacists\u2019 refusal to offer morning-after-pill THE Pharmacists\u2019 Defence Association has won corrections from two newspapers over a story which implied a Muslim pharmacist refused to give a couple the morning-after-pill because of his religion. &#13; The organisation complained to the Press Complaints Commission about\u00a0articles which appeared in The Manchester Evening News and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}