These pharmacists are not extended the right to be Pro Choice about abortions, and birth control. Wait, I forgot, choice simply means that you must use contraceptives, or have an abortion.
"No hassles, no lecture, just fill the prescription," Blagojevich said.
Again, freedom of speech is only protected if you support abortion, otherwise keep your damn mouth shut.
So much for private ownership of business.
"But IF THE PHARACY HAS THEM, it must dispense them to anyone with a valid prescription — or risk suspension of its license, said Susan Hofer of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, which oversees pharmacies."
Simple solution
Don't carry them!
"No hassles, no lecture, just fill the prescription," Blagojevich said.
Blojo is obsessed with Pharmaceuticals right now. He is forcing this I SAVERX program down peoples throat as well. The program is a sham because it does not guarantee that people are going to get what they pay for due to the FDA possibly stepping in and seizing shipments from Canada and the United Kingdom. He's an idiot and I hope to God we vote him out.
Do you think the kid behind the counter a fast-food joint should refuse to serve you because you're a little overweight? Do you think he should point this fact out to you and lecture you on good eating habits?
Pharmacists who want to use their positions to push their particular agendas would do well to seek employment in pharmacies that tolerate such actions. Otherwise, they should shut up and do their jobs.
I'd have a problem with pharmacists deciding what prescriptions I could have filled.
I don't think this is asking too much, if you carry it then you should sell it or have someone available who will. It's not that hard.
I wouldn't want to be denied ham cause the check out person was Jewish. ridiculous
The Culture of Death strikes again!
This Blagojevich is just pure evil isn't he?!
What arrogance by Blojo.
Each pharmacist has their duty to perform their services to
the best of their knowledge, and beliefs.
The person who hires them (i.e. Wal-mart, etc.) better be
sure that the person they hire has the same feelings that
the employer does....it is the professional who sets the
tone of their practice, and if their employer doesn't respect
that, then the employee should find a different venue for
their practice...But you cannot mandate that someone has to
do something they feel they cannot do. (They have conscientious
objectors to war don't they?)
This state mandated stuff is pathetic. The state laws generally
lag about 5-10 years after information and attitudes are
set in the general population.
Blojo should say something like this....
"you got pregnant, you do stuff that will get you pregnant,
YOU gotta find someone who's gonna do what YOU think is
right...."
No should be forced to protect someone who made a bad or
poorly thought out choice...What's next, Blojo telling a
bank they HAVE to make a loan to someone who is a bad
money manager, cause the borrower is in bad straights?
Blojo gotta go.
"Again, freedom of speech is only protected if you support abortion, otherwise keep your damn mouth shut." Well, Ive never been to good at keeping my damn mouth shut; so here goes. I'm PRO-LIFE and that's what I am. I was young once and I'm a guy that has always liked women. Well I've been pretty lucky to have found one that has kept me almost thirty five years now. We had two children and they went through the same things we did growing up though I think the pressures were greater for them. Yes I will use the word, we gave them rubbers. Was I happy about doing that and was I condoning anything they did NO. I wasn't able to like any other parent to be with them every minute of every day. All I can say is that in one way it did work. Neither one had any children or caused any abortions before they met their spouses. Here's the rest. They each did have a child before they were married to these spouses, yes they had them with their eventual spouses. Yes both of these two grandchildren could have been abortions though today one is ten and the other is eight. What we did with our children was not perfect though we seemed to have some great results and this is part of why I think it happened. Alot of Parents in my generation and now in my children's generation do not act like they know about the word DISCIPLINE. So what do we have? Communists and Nazis that promote abortions and many other things influencing our children. They couldn't beat us face to face and they did promise to beat us from within and that's exaxctly what is happening with every thing out there from drugs , abortions, and everything else people take to extremes. I was paid a wonderful honor by my oldest. He told me one time that I treated him like I was a Marine Gunnery Sergeant when he was growing up. I had only made it as far a U. S. Air Force Staff Sergeant. At the time he told me that he was a Air Controlman 1st Class United States Navy. He had seen a few Gunnys at work by that time I'm sure. He is living proof that discipline works and and that he knows it when he sees it. Come on Mom and Dad it isn't easy, you made it happen so take care of business. If this has upset anyone come on back I can take it.
Next mail men that refuse to deliver anything in a brown wrapper. we know what is in there. and what you are using it for. How about those uppity doctors that think they can use medications for other than what they were created for.
I have not read all the responses, but most of them seem to ignore the real issue here--the morning after pill is not simply a contraceptive but could function as an abortifaciant. (Standard hormonal contraceptives also function part of the time as abortifaciants as well, but my understanding is that the "morning-after pill" [what a euphemism] necessarily will do so more frequently.) So the governor is bypassing the representatives of the people to force pharmacists to become potential material cooperators in abortion. That's moving abortion from a supposed "choice" for those who wish to do it to a civic duty for those in certain professions. That is a violation of conscience, in the same way that laws forcing hospitals to provide abortions or medical schools to train abortionists or (down the road, not to many miles ahead) forcing doctors to do abortions?? What has become of freedom of religion, freedom of conscience? Does citizen A's desire for an abortifaciant trump citizen B's choice to have nothing to do with what he is persuaded is immoral? Since when does the government have the power to force people to do what they believe to be morally evil?
Blago's tyranny is only the latest in a series of moves to try to force those who oppose abortion or contraception or both to become complicit in acts they belief to be wrong.
It's fine to say, "do civil disobedience and take your punishment" but surely, before a law is passed that puts people with conscientious scruples in a position of paying a professional price for their beliefs it ought to have an airing in the legislature?
Would those who see this as "no big deal" say the same if the government started ordering hospitals and medical staffs actively to participate in euthanizing babies or the disabled under the guise of carrying out a "medical procedure" rather than "filling a prescription"?
The first step is to stop calling this "contraception" and call a spade a spade: the "contraceptive abortion pill."
An addendum to what I just posted: the LATimes article itself is dishonest. The reports I had read said that the governor's action was prompted specifically by women complaining that Chicago Loop pharmacists refused to sell the "morning-after pill." The LATimes turns this generally into "contraceptives."
The governor's act may well be written with "contraceptives" language but that itself is a euphemism: all hormonal contraceptives and especially the "morning-after-pill" are at least partly abortifaciant. The Lie always begins with Orwellian double-speak.
Perhaps it has been mentioned below, but there are many women who use b/c pills because of having hormonal problems and not just as birth control.
Isn't this government getting involved in a private matter? That's bad, right?
Private business owners should be able to make their own decisions on how they and their employees operate.
Could those opposed to birth control just not carry the stuff? Of course, this might mean losing at least a little money.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)