Posted on 03/30/2005 11:11:54 PM PST by kingattax
Because of beliefs, some refuse to fill birth control prescriptions Some pharmacists across the country are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills, saying that dispensing the medications violates their personal moral or religious beliefs. . The trend has opened a new front in the nation's battle over reproductive rights, sparking an intense debate over the competing rights of pharmacists to refuse to participate in something they consider repugnant and a woman's right to get medications her doctor has prescribed. It has also triggered pitched political battles in statehouses across the nation as politicians seek to pass laws either to protect pharmacists from being penalized — or force them to carry out their duties. Growing wave of drug-counter disputes "This is a very big issue that's just beginning to surface," said Steven H. Aden of the Christian Legal Society's Center for Law and Religious Freedom in Annandale, which defends pharmacists. "More and more pharmacists are becoming aware of their right to conscientiously refuse to pass objectionable medications across the counter. We are on the very front edge of a wave that's going to break not too far down the line."
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Guess these pharmacists need to seek a new form of employment. If your religious beliefs prevent you from doing your assigned duties, that seems the only answer to me.
I would like to know where to find one of these pharmacist's so I can give him/her my bussiness.
CATHOLICS NEED NOT APPLY
I think you are right, looks like they would realize if they are going to refuse to do the job, then they could at least feel guilty about taking a pay check, after all their job is to fill customer's RX's not to judge the customer's chose to take the pills.
Well, one could accomodate both the customer's need and the pharmacist's objections by making those medications available over the counter, without any prescription.
I'll bet there are a lot of Catholics that are pharmacists and not refusing to fill prescriptions.
Exactly. It comes with the territory.
Don't want to fill certain prescriptions?
The solution is to open one's own private pharmacy, so one does not have to worry about it anymore.
It's OK with me if a pharmacist who owns his own business refuses to fill certain prescriptions but not someone who is an employee at, say Walgreen's. He/she should follow Walgreen's policy or get another job.
Yes, I hate that term as well. After all, it's not a woman's reproductive system that is removed during an abortion-it's the product of her's and the father's reproduction systems that is removed and killed, in short, her baby. And it's not even part of her body either-it's an individual human being that is merely temporarily living inside her body-DNA would proves this.
Why not just call it what it really is...
I know your question was rhetorical and you know the answer-because they want to confuse the issue.
Another term I dislike is "unborn", which sounds like a zombie or something. I use the term "preborn" which accurately describes the situation.
Coming up after the break: "Mormon Bartenders-- a Moral Conflict?"
Coming up after the break-- "Mormon Bartenders: a Moral Conflict?"
Egad!
That would be an issue if Mormons could sell beer and wine but not whiskey.
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