How would this play in the U.S.?

UK Pharmacy Applauded for Upholding Muslim Pharmacist’s Right to Refuse Early Abortion Drug

ROTHERHAM, United Kingdom, October 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Muslim chemist with the Lloyds pharmacy chain has refused to distribute the abortifacient Plan B medication, a decision supported by Lloyds management.

How would Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, or employers of recently transferred or fired pharmacists handle a Muslim who refused to fill a prescription based on his deeply held religious beliefs? Would they be as accomodating as Lloyd's? Many in the U.S. have no qualms about firing Catholics or other Christians who have "deeply held religious" objections to dispensing abortifacient drugs.

Referring to the “conscience clause” of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain’s ethics code, the Lloyds’s representative said, “It states that if supplying the morning-after pill is contrary to a pharmacist’s personal, religious or moral beliefs they are entirely with their rights not to supply it.”

In 2004 Lloyds defended a London pharmacist who refused to sell the morning-after pill to a female customer on the grounds of his Catholic faith.

Quite a contrast compared to the happenings here in the U.S.