The Catholic Church has predicted that British pharmacists could be forced to dispense lethal drugs, including the morning-after pill, under plans to prohibit conscientious objection on the grounds of religion.
Proposals by the General Pharmaceutical Council, the regulatory body that sets professional standards for the industry throughout Britain, were criticised by the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales and the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, a Catholic institute serving the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
