Posted on 05/11/2005 11:52:53 AM PDT by george wythe
Pharmacists who "just say no" when asked to fill prescriptions that violate their personal ethics are targeted by proposed state legislation that would mandate all prescriptions be filled.
Some local druggists are not happy about the bill, authored by Sen. Deborah Ortiz, D-Sacramento, which would be the first in the nation to require filling emergency contraception prescriptions, even if the pharmacist feels it violates his or her personal morals.
The owner of Napa's Family Drug on Old Sonoma Road, Thomas Gracia, has mixed feelings.
"I think people should be able to get the prescriptions that they need," he said. "However, as a pharmacist and a professional, I do think that (I) should have the ability to not fill a prescription."
(Excerpt) Read more at napanews.com ...
I guess the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will rule that the government has a compelling interest in stripping people of their First Amendment rights. For rabid liberals, just one abortion delayed is one too many:
"Even one refusal is one too many," said Kathy Kneer, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood in California
The pharmacies should just not carry the pill. You can't by law force a grocer to sell you salami if he doesn't carry it, and you can't force a Chrysler dealer to sell you a Ford product, so just eliminate the product from your inventory.
Unless I am overlooking something specific when it comes to medicines.
There is no stipulation in any license granted that makes it mandatory for you to do something which you believe to be immoral.
Your parenthetical addition to the headline is incorrect.
You're about the 50 billionth person to confuse the "abortion" pill (RU-486) with the "morning after" pills (which are actually just birth control pills.)
In Case #1, a pharmacist working for someone else refuses to fill a prescription on the grounds that he/she finds the medication "morally objectionable." If this law is aimed at preventing this type of action, then the basic premise of the law is ludicrous. An employer should have the right to hire or fire an employee for any reason whatsoever.
In Case #2, a pharmacist who owns his or her own business refuses to fill a prescription on the grounds that he/she finds the medication "morally objectionable." If this law is aimed at preventing this type of action, then the law has no place in a free society -- for the state has no right to mandate business practices in private enterprise this way.
Go somewhere else.
There are so many pharmacies in the US, that some other pharmacy will gladly take your business.
Yes, and all doctors must perform abortions up until natural birth.
It's a free market. It's not like there are not pharmacies on every corner. The customer can go elsewhere.
Of course, as posted elsewhere, the solution is simply to not stock the drug. When asked simply say, "Oh, I am sorry we don't have X. We can order it for you on Monday. It would be in, in about 3-4 weeks, but that might be too late to do you any good."
Not everyone carries Oxycontin.
Please don't give Deborah Ortiz (D) any more bright ideas for legislation.
If you own your own business, you are the boss.
As a Roman Catholic, I don't make a distinction. Both are abortion pills.
Furthermore, the law applies to all prescriptions:
The proposed law was penned, she said, because of concern over women being turned away when seeking emergency contraceptives.It does not, however, mention contraceptives by name. "It apples to all lawful prescriptions," she said.
When are Pharmacists medical personel? They are NOT doctors and can refuse to despense any kind of medication to anyone. They may not be working at the same store again tho...
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How far do we let this go? "
As far as the evangelicals will go to shove their morality down our throats, apparently.
"If you're a pharmacist, your a pharmacist--not a pastor."
Agreed.
Every abortion is a good abortion, according to the ghouls on the left...
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