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To: Dr. Sivana

I don’t understand how a pharmacist can make a moral or ethical judgment about a prescribed medicine without understanding the patient’s health condition (which I would never want them to be privy to).

Levonorgestrel is not just used to stimulate abortion. It’s been used for years as an oral contraceptive, as well as a treatment for PCOS. Who is the pharmacist to draw conclusions just from the treatment written on the script?


68 posted on 06/27/2023 6:24:53 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: oblomov

That is an important point. Of course the pharmacist can ask questions about the use. Certainly they do if there are questions about interactions, if the prescription is off-label, or if federal schedule opiates are involved.

In the case of Plan B, the dosage size probably tells us much. Other types of prescriptions, (Estrogen for men) have fewer possibilities. Again, the pharmacist had the right to decide. The customer can take his business elsewhere.

We are at the point in Canada where the doctors are treated like you suggest pharmacists should be treated. If they are not PARTICIPATING in abortion (for obgyns especially), trans-everything, and especially Euthanasia, they can lose their right to practice. Dr. Jordan Peterson is a high profile case of someone who is in danger of losing his right to perform therapy because of the way he expresses his opinions. It will cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight this. He has the resources. Many don’t, and either give in or quit altogether.

I would rather maximize freedom, and minimize state (including professional boards) interventions and I am willing to extend it to pharmacists as well as doctors.


69 posted on 06/27/2023 7:09:47 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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