Posted on 10/15/2004 4:45:33 PM PDT by narses
A pharmacist is in the spotlight for refusing to fill a prescription for the abortifacient morning-after pill last month. Suzanne Richards reported to a local newspaper that Brooks pharmacist Todd Sklencar refused to fill her prescription when she drove up to the drive-through prescription counter. After initially being refused by Sklencar's assistant, she told the assistant that she had received the same prescription there before. Sklencar then came to the window and said he disagreed with abortion on moral grounds, and would not provide the prescription. He advised her to try another pharmacy. "He said something like, 'I believe this will end the fertilization of the egg and this conception was your choice,'" she described to Foster's Sunday Citizen. "I'm a single mother and I'm just trying to be responsible," Richards claimed. "When I realized what he was saying, I pulled the car over in the parking lot and just cried."
After returning to the pharmacy later that night with her father, she was refused a second time, Richards said. She said that when she was contacted by another Brooks pharmacist Tuesday to tell her the prescription was ready, it was too late for the so-called emergency contraception, which needs to be administered within 72 hours. New Hampshire is one of many states that allows pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions for any reason. Executive director of the New Hampshire Board of Pharmacy Paul Boisseau, said, however, that the pharmacist should refer the customer to an alternate dispensary. The same policy is held by the American Pharmacists Association, which, although allowing a "conscience clause," requires pharmacists to refer patients to an alternative source. Pharmacists for Life International president Karen Brauer told local WMUR Channel 9 News that requiring pharmacists to refer the patient to someone who will fill the prescription is "stupid." "If we're not going to kill a human being, we're not going to help the customer go do it somewhere else," she argued.
Ping for life.
What a jerk. Will he hold back pain medication because he doesn't believe in mind-altering drugs? Or anti-depressants? Or STD medication?
Do your job, buddy, and don't go making moral judgements.
How is the pharmacist's fault about the 72 hours if he initially told her to try another pharmacy, and she (a) pulled over and cried, and (b) she came back later than night with her father? He didn't take the prescription and refuse to return it? He refused to take it and suggested a different course of action. What am I missing?
Responsible means you don't get into this situation in the first place. Why don't they get that?
"Do your job, buddy, and don't go making moral judgements."
Really? Why not? Why is your 'moral judgment' superior to his?
Sinful human nature.
If she goes through with the pregnancy whe will thank this man after all. She will be mad at him until birth. She should know this too as a mother already.
I never claimed my moral judgement is superior. NOBODY should be making a moral judgement on legal prescriptions.
and yet here we go...another emergency...
So Zyklon-B for Treblinka is an order you'd fill?
I wonder exactly how many abortions this woman has had.
You already said it!
Try again with a more relevant argument.
For example, is this pharmacist filling prescriptions for Valtrex? If so, why is he not making a moral judgement on that?
"Try again with a more relevant argument."
But you said:
"NOBODY should be making a moral judgement on legal prescriptions."
Zyklon-B was legal.
Try a better counter.
Why should employment suspend conscience?
Zyklon-B was used for PEST control.
Your analogy is ridiculous.
The "pests" at Treblinka were Jews my Lunatic Fringe FRiend. Perhaps your education is faulty, perhaps you didn't know this. If that is the case, my apologies for being less than clear.
I am well aware of this. Zyklon-B was legal, as you said, but used for pest control and was not dispensed by a pharmacist whose job it was to provide medical treatment. This pharmacist should have simply directed her to another pharmacy rather than stand there preaching at her about her "choice." That was completely out of line.
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