Wal-mart finally does a responsible thing

From the Talking Points Memo Cafe:

After Massachusetts last month ordered Wal-Mart to stock the "Plan B" emergency contraception pill, Wal-Mart this past Friday announced that, effective March 20, all Wal-Mart pharmacies nationwide will carry emergency contraception, reversing the companies previous policy

A spokesman for Wal-mart offers the most obvious reason they should have been stocking this in the first place: it is an FDA-approved drug. No pharmacy should get to decide which FDA-approved drugs they think are ok. It might be a drug for women's reproductive rights this time around, but it might be something else that you need next time. The spokesman said:

"Because of this, and the fact that this is an FDA-approved product, we feel it is difficult to justify being the country's only major pharmacy chain not selling it."

Yeah, but you tried and would still be doing if a legislature hadn't made you stop.