Private employer has the right to set what it requires its private employees to sell.
Similarly, a private pharmacy has the right NOT to sell these products.
It's their choice.
The government need not be involved either way. The market will resolve.
What's missed is that this medication was developed as a treatment for ulcers and was abandoned as the side effect was to abort a pregnancy. I think that Bayer in Germany developed it and dropped the product.
That's cool. And I can visit elsewhere. I love freedom.
I have to agree... and then we have the right of boycott.
That's the free market.
Indeed. There are those who will boycott those stores. I support that right (and to be more realistic, responsibility). But the pharmacists in question knew the situation prior to their actions. They have to deal with the repercussions of their actions. If it means they can't work for Walgreens' any more, then they need to find another employer.
The government need not be involved either way. The market will resolve.
I couldn't have said it any better, no one could.
As I recall from an earlier article, Illinois law allows pharmacists to refuse to fill a prescription to which they have religious/moral objections. If true, a company does not have the right to force their employees to sell such products. Otherwise, of course, they would.
Boy, I totally agree with your statement.
But I argued this the other night and got kicked from one end to the next.
If I own the store and say "sell the item" and the employee refuses ... then I feel I have the right ot fire them.