There was a recent case in Wisconsin where the pharmacist refused to fill a prescription for birth control and refused to transfer the prescription to another pharmacy.
what happened?
Was that birth control pills, or the morning after abortion pill?
If the pharmacist owns his own pharmacy, more power to him. If he works for someone else and doesn't want to carry out his employer's policies, then it's time to find another job. He shouldn't be able to pick and choose among the meds that suit his moral sensibilities. If you have a problem with it, go work somewhere else.
And not filling a prescription and then NOT transferring it somewhere else is just plain wrong.
And IMHO prolifers targeting contraception is a good way to get the public to turn on their movement. It's a losing fight and one guaranteed to label you as "fringe" in most people's minds.
Prescriptions are not pieces of paper but rather an immaterial license issued by a physician to dispense a controlled substance. The prescription in question wasn't a physical script but was called in. It was not as if the pharmacist refused to give a piece of paper back. To "transfer" this prescription would have required the pharmacist to call another pharmacy and effectively re-prescribe it. Since the drug in question is a known abortifacient, this action would have been material participation in a potential abortion. The employer was aware of this moral reservation and the prescription was filled the next Monday by another pharmacist.
The next "emergency order" from this governor could just as easily be to require all surgeons to perform abortions on anyone who asks them.
So what? Did he crumble her paper and throw it away? Let her go elsewhere if that pharmacist wants nothing to do with it.