Walgreens Replies

November 22, 2005


Dear (Hobobarista),

Thank you for taking your time to contact our Corporate Offices. We
appreciate hearing from our
customers and value all comments received.

Thank you for sharing your opinion with us in regard to dispensing of
contraceptive medication by our
pharmacists. Walgreens believes it has an obligation to meet the medical
needs of all of its patients. We
also believe we have an obligation to respect the wide spectrum of views
and beliefs of our 163,000
employees. At rare times these may differ.

To fairly resolve these situations, and where allowed by state law, we
believe it's reasonable to respect the
individual pharmacist's beliefs by not requiring them to fill a
prescription they object to on moral or
religious grounds. We also believe it's reasonable to meet our obligation
to the patient by having another
pharmacist at the store fill the prescription. If another pharmacist is not
on duty, we will arrange to have the
prescription filled at a nearby pharmacy before the patient leaves the
store.

Thank you for giving us an opportunity to respond to your concern.

Sincerely,


Kari G.
Consumer Response Representative



For those keeping score, we're waiting for CVS and Planned Parenthood to reply. After that, I'm going to talk a little bit about pharmacy procedures, to clarify exactly what is so morally repugnant to these christian pharmacists.