SEATTLE - The local chapter of NARAL says an alarming number of women can't find pharmacies that will fill prescriptions for the morning after pill, even though it is legal to dispense it in Washington State.

NARAL Pro-Choice Washington recently conducted a study on the number of state pharmacies carrying the pill.

Project volunteers contacted abut 80 percent of the pharmacies in the state. According to NARAL's Web site, results show that 7.4 percent of surveyed pharmacies do not stock Plan B, and 3 percent of surveyed pharmacies have a pharmacist on staff that refuses to dispense Plan B.

"Basically 10 percent of pharmacies in Washington, a woman can not go into and get the morning after pill," said Karen Cooper, of NARAL.

But some argue it is the pharmacists right to say no.

Last November a U.S. district judge imposed an injunction allowing pharmacists the right to refuse to sell Plan B if they refer the customer to another nearby source. The injunction is part of a lawsuit by two pharmacists and a drug store owner who claim the state's birth control sales rules violate their civil rights.

On Friday the state, Planned Parenthood and several other organizations will appeal that ruling.

"We're hoping that the pharmacists will prevail and the injunction will be maintained," said Mary Emanual, a pro-life blogger.

The attorney representing the pharmacists responded to NARAL's survey, saying: "NARAL-Pro Choice, as a publicity stunt and naked attempt to put pressure on the court, has apparently paid for its own 'survey' regarding the availability of Plan B. Why the public would accept NARAL's 'survey' over the survey done by the Board to assist it in its rule-making function, is hard to fathom. "

The trial in this case gets underway next fall. In the meantime, NARAL is putting together a grass roots campaign, pushing for pharmacists to carry the pill.

"It is unacceptable for women to have to go from one pharmacy to the next, hoping to find the medication they need especially when that medication is time sensitive as Plan B is," said Trina Stout.

Stout spoke on behalf of NARAL recently. She said she was recently turned away from a Seattle pharmacy after asking for Plan B.

"Not only did they not stock it, the pharmacist was unsympathetic, rude and dismissive of my health care needs," Stout said.