Overconfident Leftists

Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing and BoingBoing's fans are getting paranoid about the right of pharmacists to refuse to dispense birth control pills, sometimes even accusing the pharmacists of violating Constitutional rights.

At a first look, that's a pointless complaint. It's not a violation of the Constitution for a pharmacist to refuse a pill. Pharmacists are not normally government agents and it's always possible to go to the next drugstore.

At a second look, it's not so pointless. If the left gets into power and pushes through a single-payer medical program, pharmacists will be government agents with a monopoly. Apparently, the left is already planning what they'll do after they take over the country.