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Consumer Confidential: Walgreens case shows it's time to get God out of the workplace

I feel about people with strongly held religious convictions pretty much the same way I feel about people who can juggle machetes and lit torches: I'm impressed and maybe a little envious, but please be careful around others.

That's been on my mind after it was reported this week that a Walgreens pharmacist in Arizona refused for religious reasons to fill a woman's prescription for a medicine to induce miscarriage.

The woman, Nicole Arteaga, 35, hadn't wanted to abort the 9-week-old fetus. She was told by her doctor that it had stopped developing, and her choice was to either take a medication

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