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California Senate Considers Grocery Clerks' Conscience ClauseMay 5 2005 by Lisa K. Buchanan
Opponents say the bill would "deny women access to mercury poison and fish breath," adding that grocery clerks should not be allowed to impose their morality on customers, pre-born and otherwise. Supporters say that women ages 15-44 should be discouraged from buying tuna due to its harmful levels of mercury, a dangerous neurotoxin that can hamper fetal brain development and impair motor skills, memory and learning ability. Grocery Clerks for Life (GCL) began lobbying for the bill last year after a California grocery chain fired a clerk for refusing to sell a female college student canned albacore for emergency consumption, also known as "Plan B" or the "Morning-After Fish." Nor would the clerk refer the customer to a colleague. "It could be a grave sin, particularly for an organic vegetarian, to even assist a woman of childbearing age in pursuing a food that could harm a human life at its earliest stages," said GCL spokesperson Matt Leafy. Opponents of the conscience clause said the wording was ambiguous and could allow grocery clerks to refuse to sell any food on moral grounds. "Suppose they withhold hormone-injected beef or pesticide-soaked strawberries?" posed Marsha Dieldrin, president of the Toxic Foods Association. Leafy insisted that was not the legislation's intent. He did not deny rumors, however, that GCL may add middle-aged men to their tuna-refusal program due to newly reported links between mercury consumption and increased heart disease. "This bill violates the American brown-bag lunch tradition," said Dieldrin. "If it passes, tuna-loving women will be forced to seek healthier organic foods or even vegetarian options. And that is not what America stands for." Dieldrin added that some women of childbearing age, particularly the affluent, may not have access to mercury poison elsewhere. Leafy scoffed at the notion. "California has plenty of ill-informed grocery clerks and high-end restaurants that provide swordfish, sea bass and other mercury-rich alternatives to women of childbearing age," he said. Get DeadBrain delivered to your Inbox! Click here to sign up at our parent site. Consider the weekly and monthly editions, each of which contain all-new, laugh-out-loud office comedy you won't see on the website!
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