Posted on 02/04/2005 8:07:46 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March
Boortz is upset with the idea of pharmacists having a conscience about whether an unborn child should be murdered or not. He took a few calls on it, which is very unusual. Normally, only he is allowed to snipe his views that abortion is ok. I only heard the last call. The idiot compared abortion with what kind of drinks a bartender can serve. Since the caller agreed with him, Boortz seemed to like the call.
I like a lot of things about Boortz, but I just have to vent on this today. He has his show. We have this forum.
How can a pro-life Christian be a pharmacist if forced into handing out poison that kills the unborn?
And I try to get along with 'rape abortionists', but let's get real here. Should we seek out ALL children of rapists and kill them? Are they an evil seed or something? Why can't a rape victim choose adoption? Yes, she goes through nine months, gets stretch marks, etc. So kill the child?
A pharmacist should hand out the poison? It's one thing for a mother to want to kill her kid because she was raped, but its another thing for another person to compromise his or her value of human life to make the murder... convenient... for her. What does that have to do with what kind of drinks a bartender serves?
Is that the best Boortz's callers can do? Is that the extent of the brainpower of his supporters?
And while we're at it, if it's ok for a mother to kill her child, then when someone kicks her in the gut to kill her child, that should not be called murder. The courts should go light on him. After all, it's just a blob of tissue, whether she wants it to live or not.
When Boortz's daughter gets pregnant and some guy kicks her in the gut to kill her child, Boortz should not say a word. It was a blob of tissue. He should not whine about it on the radio. He should not shed a tear. All he should care about is any harm to his daughter. A mother's will does not create life. Life either IS or IS NOT.
Is that a libertarian plank in their platform?
There are a lot of things I like about Boortz. But I had to turn him off for a bit. I'll go back of course. I care about eminent domain, the War, national sales tax, etc.
But he loves to snipe his pro-death mantra and it's a cold day in Bootzland when someone can say anything other than perhaps to agree with him about it. And the man wants a grandkid.
So fine. We can talk here, boldly facing opposing views with a little bit of courage, unlike what Boortz has on this issue-- he's a chicken on this issue, scared to take on anyone with a brain, unless there was a call I missed today. FReegards....
You can not be a pro-life, Born Again Christian, and there are no others, and deal in drugs or procedures that kill babies in the womb, the very thing that God choose to come to earth in the form of, a baby in the womb.
Neal Boortz is hypocritcial talking about RU-486, the abortion pill, when he will allow no discussion of abortion on his show. A typical liberal elitist. Neal can talk about abortion on his show but you can't.
I agree. But I do not want to see Christians banned from entire professions.
Abortion has nothing to do with libertarianism.
Fair enough, pharmacists should be allowed to deny women birth control pills. They should also have signs that state clearly, at the counter or at the door, that birth control pills won't be dispensed in their pharmacy, to make it clear to women that they'll need to go somewhere else.
But an employee of Walgreens or RiteAid does not have the option of refusing to dispense a legal product stocked by his employer.
If I worked at a sporting goods store, could I refuse to sell guns and ammunition to legal purchasers?
And while many arguments about legalizing drugs can have a certain surface appeal--libertarians tend to avoid addressing in any realistic way how these new "businesses" that would arise upon legalization would be managed. 'tarians just answer those problems with a flip stock boilerplate about absolute freedom absolutely all the time.
When Boortz goes into his estrogen crazed bedwetter routine about cigarettes, you realize what he really is.
What Boortz actually says on his Neils' Nuze:
Now Georgia Republicans are flexing their muscles in preparation for exercising more control over the reproductive lives of Georgia women. A bill has been introduced that would protect pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for emergency contraceptive drugs. Some druggists who have strong anti-abortion sentiments are refusing to fill doctors prescriptions for the "morning after" pill. In so doing they place themselves and their moral principals between the doctors and their patients. Republican freshman Senator Jim Whitehead has introduced a bill that would prevent an employer from firing or disciplining a pharmacist who refuses to fill these prescriptions. That happened to an Eckerd pharmacist last year in Texas.
Did you know that in some cases these "I don't care what your doctor says, you're not getting this drug" pharmacists refuse to hand the prescription back to the customer. That way they prevent the customer from going somewhere else to get it filled. No word yet as to how Jim Whitehead, the self-appointed keeper of the womb is handling this one.
Related bills: SB 77, Women's Right to Know Act HB 197
Note that I believe abortion to be a bad thing...
If a drugstore does not wish to carry a morning-after pill, that is a business decision and perfectly legal and ethical.
However, a pharmacist is a licensed, professional employee and if the store carries a product, it's not the decision of the employee to dispense it or not.
The only legitimate option is to resign and work for a store which does not carry something with which you do not agree.
I'm not suggesting that anyone be banned from anything, I'm simply stating a fact
; You can not be a Born Again Christian and be involved in the business of infanticide, as either a butcher or one who dispences drugs that kill babies trapped in the womb.
There is a serious question in the event of rape. Is it morally justifiable to force a woman to bear a child as a result of rape?
How do you plan to end the pregnancy without taking an innocent life?
"I vas chust followink orders".
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