Posted on 02/08/2006 2:00:13 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
BARRON, WI (AP) - A judge has upheld sanctions against a pharmacist who refused to dispense birth control pills to a college student and wouldn't transfer her prescription elsewhere.
Barron County Circuit Judge James Babler affirmed the punishment the state Pharmacy Examining Board handed down against pharmacist Neil Noesen. The board ruled last April that Noesen failed to carry out his responsibility to get the prescription to someone else if he wouldn't fill it himself.
The board reprimanded Noesen, of St. Paul, Minn., and ordered him to attend ethics classes. He will get to keep his license if he informs all future employers in writing he won't dispense birth control pills and the steps he would take to make sure a patient has access to medication. He was also found liable for the cost of the proceedings against him, which came to about $20,000.
He was working as a substitute pharmacist at a Menomonie Kmart in 2002 when a University of Wisconsin-Stout student came in to refill her birth control pills. Noesen testified he asked her whether she would use the pills for contraception, and he refused to help her or return the prescription when she answered yes.
Noesen told the board he is a devout Roman Catholic. He said he refused to refill the pills or release her prescription to another pharmacy because he didn't want to commit a sin.
I had missed the part where he wouldn't let her transfer her prescription
You don't let your boss know when something is a problem for you? You're right, you owe your employer whatever services he or she requires, but we are not hearing of the actions that the employer took against him.
I had noted in a later post that I'd missed that he refused to transfer the prescription so my comments were updated accordingly.
Right, but your conversation is with your boss. You are supposed to let your boss know if you have a problem with some part of your job. Your boss is then supposed to handle it-- either say, sorry you are not working out or okay, here's the procedure when someone asks and you are on duty.
I went back to make sure that I didn't miss any actions taken by KMart against the substitute pharmacist and the article makes no mention.
As a nonsequitur, pharmacists are in short supply and can command pretty hefty salaries. I wonder why this guy was only a substitute?
Abortifacients kill. Other forms of birthcontrol do NOT.
Non-abortifacient birthcontrol is most definitely NOT on the same level as sin as a surgical abortion, and in some Christian denominations and other religions, it's use is not considered a sin at all.
You're a liar and a coward.
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"Birth control pills don't medicate - they kill."
For some women, they keep them out of extreme pain and misery every month. Too bad they don't have a pill that negates the effect of ignorant statements made by religious zealots wishing to exert their misguided opinions on those seeking relief from pain and discomfort due to their gender.
"//Using the explicit criteria established by Religion, one can find that Christ, muhammed, charles manson and satan worshippers are all equally "correct."//"
I've seen this idiotic post before. Thanks for reposting it. It may help others reading your posts of how illogical and anti-Christian these evolutionists are.
Remember that first and foremost evolutionists are intent on the destuction of Christianity and our Western way of life. Many others have made the same or similar prognosis regarding their agenda.
My heartfelt thanks to you for countering and uncovering the evolutionists' true agenda.
Keep up the great work. It may seem at first in vain and useless to spend time arguing with their dogma, but it's is not. It's time well spent.
Sorry.
I thought we were in the crevo threads. But the post is well worth a read.
"The drugs themselves have legal value and taking those would be theft. But the prescription paper itself doesn't carry any value in and of itself."
I beg to differ. One cannot just call up their doctor and ask them to call in a prescription. Especially for birth control. Most doctors, if they are worth their salt, will want to SEE you before they prescribe any medication. So that little piece of worthless paper usually means ponying up a co-pay and losing time at work. I don't know what you pay for an insruance co-pay, but I just forked out $25 to mine to have her tell me I need an antibiotic for a respiratory infection.
Maybe you don't have to pay, though. Maybe YOU are on welfare and have no co-pay because taxpayers pick it up so you can sit home and pop out babies on my dime. That's what it sounds like to me.
And if a pharmacist ever asked me if I was going to use BCP for contraception, I'd ask him if he asked all of his male customers buying hand lotion and tissues if they're using it for masturbation purposes. You do know that every sperm is sacred, right?
It's none of his business.
My wife was prescribed birth control pills for a short time to help regulate blood flow due to endometriosis. If a little creep pharmacist had asked her if she were using the pills for contraception, I'd have gone down to the pharmacy and told him where to get off.
Should this zealot have stopped people from buying condoms from the pharmacy, too?
And the pharmacist was punishing a girl whose moral code offended him.
He gets to do it but she doesn't?
No, the Judge is not the idiot. The Pharmacist doesn't have to fill the prescription but HE DOES HAVE TO TRANSFER IT to someone who will.
No, the Judge is not the idiot. The Pharmacist doesn't have to fill the prescription but HE DOES HAVE TO TRANSFER IT to someone who will.
This story seems to be missing something....it seems beyond the pale for some reason.
Birth control? Abortion pill, maybe...but birth control?
Maybe they knew each other, maybe he's crazy, maybe this is bad recounting of the story, but somehow, we're missing something.
Or...the pharmacist is just stupid.
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