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Posted on 11/08/2007 5:33:25 PM PST by llevrok
ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: November 8th, 2007 01:07 PM
A federal judge has suspended Washington’s requirement that pharmacists sell “morning-after” birth control pills. The injunction says pharmacists can refuse to sell the morning-after pill, referring a customer instead to a nearby source.
It’s part of a lawsuit by two pharmacists and a drugstore owner, who claim in a lawsuit that the state’s birth-control sales rules violated their civil rights.
The morning-after pill, sold as “Plan B,” can dramatically lower the risk of pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex. Some critics consider the pill tantamount to abortion, although it has no effect on women who are pregnant.
Well so be it. If someone doesn’t want to sell something they should not be forced by the state at gunpoint to do so.
As far as their "professional" worth is concerned, it usually amounts to, "Have you used this drug before?" If yes, that's it. If no, then, "Be sure to read the poop sheet in the bag." The last thing I need is some tradesperson attempting to inflict his religious or other nutty opinions on me.
My advice to these druggists with their noses out of joint?
Get a job you can do.
Wow. It’s nice to know that freedom rings in at least one federal judge’s courtroom.
This is great news ! Now we can put pressure on the “big” pharmacies NOT to sell abortion “services” and calling it medicine.
Octar, IMHO, a pharmacist who SELLS the so-called “morning-after pill” is AIDING and ABETING in the commission of MURDER.. that may sound a bit harsh, but that is exactly how I see it.. unfortunately the courts do not agree so I can’t go arresting these folks anymore than I can arrest the so-called “doctor” performing a murder in the form of a partial-BIRTH abortion.... but I can’t understand for the life of me how a pharmacists can be FORCED to aid in the commission of a MURDER.... this is a good ruling by the courts for once..
Granted, there was that FUBAR decision on 747, but in light of the thumping all the tax raising measures just got, if Governor Spiteful orders all our property taxes jacked up 20-30%, all it'll do is give us the brooms to make a clean sweep of the upcoming elections.
That's because you couldn't understand what I said. I know that life begins at conception. I am anti-abortion.
Druggists are not the enforcers of your or their views. If they are permitted to override your doctor's determination of your medical needs you will have more to worry about than you are yammering about now.
Octar & My Ping List,
Sorry, not buying that argument... The same excuse would not fly if I was to sell a gun to a guy KNOWING that he was going to IMMEDIATELY turn around and shoot another one of my customers who is in the store at the same time..... I would think that I would have a bit of obligation to at least warn my other customer so that he can leave the store or at least seek some cover to have a chance to live.... in this case my other customer is THE BABY (you know the one who is about to be killed by the pill— yeah that’s the one) in case you missed that in the analogy.
And if the druggist exercises his right to not want to do business with you, then go find a druggist who DOES want to do business with you. But don't go crying to big government to drop the hammer on the first druggist - - that's what Democrats do.
exactly...
FReegards,
TOWARD VICTORY
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She'd go to the pharmacy down the street, and start devising a plan to boycott that ZPG pharmacy into bankruptcy, eh? That's what I'd do.
And since you think the pharmacist has no business having any ethics because he's jut a vending machine, do you think vending machines should be required by law to stock every product on the market?
I personally think a seller has a right to choose what he wants to sell. And the right to refuse service to any person, at any time, for any reason. There. I said it.
The customer has the right take his/her business to somebody else, boycott anybody he doesn't find congenial, buy by Internet, whatever. Sheesh.
You--- forgive me --- create the impression that you think the pharmacist is an automaton, and the doctor is God.
This is a commercial transaction. The customer should go to a retail outlet that carries what she wants. What's so hard about that?
Well said, Lancey.
What I am saying is that 95% of Freepers will applaud this as being a good result.
But only because it fits a narrow part of the spectrum.
What if a young pharmacist just out of med school decides he doesn’t want to give life saving drugs to people over 45 because he wants to get his social security?
This decision is a whole lot bigger than just a right to life issue. Maybe I’m wrong, it actually IS a right to life issue.
A woman in our small group gave up her very good pharmacy job at Krogers rather than fight the State of Illinois on this. She got another job at a Catholic hospital.
I pray this may become national law. I don’t understand a law that requires a person to give baby killing poison to another.
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