Posted on 04/19/2005 4:35:19 PM PDT by IleeneWright
Red herring. That's not what this is about.
Actually, it's too orchestrated to be anything else.
What if your customers want to bake people in ovens? This is not an ordinary issue for the United States. Perhaps you should consult with cannibals to get a more in-depth viewpoint. If I seem confused, please understand that I try to think I'm living in a civilized nation.
I should mention that the MEDIA continually refers to the prescription which the pharmacist refused to fill, as birth control/contraceptives.
The prescription which the woman wanted him to fill was the MORNING AFTER *ABORTION PILL*! Not birth control pills!
"What kind of country is this that forces a worker to violate his own conscience?"
You don't get to exercise your conscience on your employer's dime. If you have your own business, fine, do what you want. But if you work for me and refuse to do what I want, you're gone. Nobody forces you to take the job.
"The prescription which the woman wanted him to fill was the MORNING AFTER *ABORTION PILL*! Not birth control pills!"
Why not insist that pizza parlors bake unwanted relatives? If the cook refuses, fire him.
"You don't get to exercise your conscience on your employer's dime."
That's right. Would you kill someone if your boss insisted?
The RU-486 wasn't approved until not too long ago! Most pharmacists who went to school to become a pharmacist, didn't know that they'd have to sell ABORTION IN A BOTTLE. This has nothing to do with birth control pills.
The pharmaceutical business is already one of the most heavily regulated and policed businesses in this country. His nose and every other politician's nose has been in it for 100 years.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! That's EXACTLY what I said, when I read the original story, which lead to this law suit!
"The RU-486 wasn't approved until not too long ago! Most pharmacists who went to school to become a pharmacist, didn't know that they'd have to sell ABORTION IN A BOTTLE."
Excellent point. I rarely meddle in employer/employee relations, but legalized murder makes this issue impossible to resolve. It's all part of the modern-day Holocaust.
I dunno... if someday someone complained about me not selling herbs to cause abortions, I would expect to be fired.
ROFLOLPMP!!!!!!! THANK YOU!! Oh how I NEEDED that! Too FUUUNNNNNNY!
If you spent two weeks trying to come up with a goofier response, I don't think you could have done it. That was classic.
Horse hockey. No one should quit their job because they are unwilling to do something which goes against their morals. Why should the pharmacists suffer the loss of their job for standing for their beliefs.
In this case particularly, the ball is firmly in the other court. You want birth control pills or death-in-the-morning pills, and a pharmacist doesn't want to fill them? Get off your lazy ass and go to another pharmacist. It would probably take 15 minutes of phone time to find someone willing to fill your order.
Yeah, but NOW *YOU* have the advantage of being able to CONTEMPLATE it! Do you really think that any pharmacist comntemplated the possibility that they would HAVE TO one day in the FUTURE, fill an ABORTION IN A BOTTLE prescription?
Dark humor alert:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/765682/posts
Woman left to discover jar containing her baby
I'm sure many gynocologists didn't anticipate having to do abortions either. If a pharmacist doesn't want to fill a prescription for the abortion pill then don't but don't whine about getting fired. I wouldn't whine about getting fired for not doing my job.
"If you spent two weeks trying to come up with a goofier response, I don't think you could have done it. That was classic."
From your 'enlightened' viewpoint. The 'enlightenment' of eugenics inspired the nazis, too. They thought anyone who defended the 'genetically inferior' were goofy.
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