Luke Vander Bleek This is Me

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1. 1. Affiliation Report

   www.ipha.org/staff/DirPrintabl - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/18/2008   Last Visited: 3/18/2008

   Luke D. Vander Bleek, R.Ph. Business: 815-772-3415 Fax: 815-772-7240 lvande@fitzgeraldpharmacy.com

2. 2. www.ipha.org

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   Published on: 9/7/2007   Last Visited: 9/7/2007

   IPhA President: Luke Vander Bleek , R.Ph.

3. 3. www.sj-r.com

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   Published on: 10/15/2007   Last Visited: 10/21/2007

   Vander Bleek, a Morrison pharmacist who believes that life beings at conception, is holding out hope in the same way for his legal challenge to Gov.
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   Vander Bleek, whose challenge will be heard by the Illinois Supreme Court, said the drugs can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in a woman's uterus, which he considers an abortion.
   
   "Emergency contraception is not health care," said Vander Bleek, immediate past president of the Illinois Pharmacist Association. "My understanding of pregnancy is that it's not a disease or an illness."
   
   Vander Bleek doesn't take any comfort from a proposed settlement in a separate legal challenge to the governor's pharmacy rule.
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   Instead, the lower courts said Vander Bleek and his colleagues in the lawsuit lack legal standing and had failed to exhaust administrative remedies.
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   But Vander Bleek and his lawyer think that the justices may be interested in the bigger issue.
   
   "We're really hoping and praying that they will rule on the merits of our case," Vander Bleek said.
   
   Vander Bleek has no problem dispensing daily oral contraceptives, which are intended to block ovulation, not prevent implantation of a fertilized egg.
   
   Since the governor's rule went into effect, Vander Bleek said he has told one patient seeking Plan B that he doesn't stock it. She then left, he said.
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   Good for you Mr Vander Bleek wrote at 10/15/2007 8:07:49 AM
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   Mr. Vander Bleek has a right to choose. The user of Plan B has a right to choose as well. Both will have to answer to God one day for their actions. We all will have to account one day for our actions. I commend Mr Vander Bleek for his stance. He based his position on his faith.
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   This is a tough situation but I agree with Mr. Vander Bleek. According to the article he OWNS his own pharmacy which gives him the right to run his business as he sees fit. Sure, the RX are orders from a physicion but he doesn't work for a physician. He works for himself. He doesn't have to answer to anyone but himself. There are no rules that say he has to carry any type of drug. His pharmacy carries all the other drugs because he wants to make a living. Ten miles is a 10-15 minute drive to the next pharmacy to get Plan B. Of course there are always issues of rape. If a woman gets raped and goes to the emergency room she can get the RX filled at the hospital. Otherwise she can find a Wal-greens or CVS after getting the order from a doctor!
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   Mr Vander Bleek wrote at 10/15/2007 12:13:36 PM
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   To Mr. Vander Bleek wrote at 10/15/2007 5:05:04 PM
   
   Keep your opinion of my body out of your career.
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   Shame on Vander Bleek wrote at 10/15/2007 7:15:01 PM
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   Vander Bleek has never counseled a rape victim and never held her while she wept. Vander Bleek would force her to bear the child of her rapist when Plan B would keep her from ever being pregnant. He is not a licenced provider of health care.