Schadenfreude, baby!
The Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy in Chantilly, Virginia proudly and purposefully limited what it would stock on its shelves. But it turns out that no birth control pills, no condoms, no porn, no tobacco and even no makeup added up to one thing: no customers.
The self-described “pro-life” pharmacy went out of business last month, less than two years after it opened to great fanfare, with a Catholic priest sprinkling holy water on the strip-mall store tucked between an Asian supermarket and a scuba shop. It opened amid a string of well-publicised incidents in the United States and abroad in which pharmacists refused to fill women’s prescriptions for birth control or the morning-after pill and, in some cases, refused to refer the women to another pharmacist or return the prescription to her.