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Druggists refuse to give out pill
USA Today, via Yahoo ^ | Charisse Jones, USA TODAY

Posted on 11/09/2004 8:23:53 AM PST by Michael Goldsberry

Edited on 11/09/2004 8:39:31 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: Sloth

Last I checked, this pharmacist was not the government and pills are legal... Or did I land in teheran by mistake? Or in Romania before the revolution?


221 posted on 11/09/2004 10:11:24 AM PST by Pitiricus
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To: Atlantic Friend
Speaking as a foreigner, I'd say they could on the contrary draw some lessons from this thread, about open speech and honest debate, and the ability to bring sound contradiction in a civil manner.

Yeah, too bad that lesson will fly right over the heads of people over at DU.

Can you imagine a discussion over there where half of the posters supported the pharmacist?

222 posted on 11/09/2004 10:12:16 AM PST by Modernman (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J.)
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To: jwalsh07

LOL... I am probably here for longer than you...

But what you don't accept is that people like me, moderates, pro-choice (and the vast majority of Americans are pro-choice) with some limits, anti-gay marriage but for gay civil rights are the majority...


223 posted on 11/09/2004 10:13:11 AM PST by Pitiricus
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To: Pitiricus
"A pharmacist takes the hippocratic oath????"

Assuming his school offers one, sure.

224 posted on 11/09/2004 10:13:13 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: Pitiricus

Yeah, but he didn't use "force" either, so why'd you bring it up?


225 posted on 11/09/2004 10:13:23 AM PST by Sloth ("Rather is TV's real-life Ted Baxter, without Baxter's quiet dignity." -- Ann Coulter)
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To: robertpaulsen

Show me one school that does...


226 posted on 11/09/2004 10:13:37 AM PST by Pitiricus
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To: Scenic Sounds
I think we can all agree that sometimes property rights just have to take a back seat.

Please give an example of when it is OK to suspend rights.

227 posted on 11/09/2004 10:13:50 AM PST by Protagoras (Pedophiles are pedophiles, even if they are female.)
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To: Servant of the 9
Sounds like simple theft to me. Not exactly a Christian virtue.

If by stealing, you could prevent a murder. Would you?

228 posted on 11/09/2004 10:13:58 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Sloth
Trying to impose your values on others by force...is the basis of all law and government.

Some laws act solely to uphold rights. Laws against murder, rape and theft are examples. Governments could be founded upon such laws.

229 posted on 11/09/2004 10:14:10 AM PST by freeeee ("Owning" property in the US just means you have one less landlord.)
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To: DannyTN

It isn't murder to use contraception except in the sex-deprived brains of the Roman curia...


230 posted on 11/09/2004 10:14:38 AM PST by Pitiricus
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To: freeeee
You're absolutely right.

There was a time when a landowner could claim everything from his land straight up to the cosmos. But then the Government came along and just took that stick out of his little bundle.

Government said they wanted to create something they call aviation! And that's just what they did!! ;-)

231 posted on 11/09/2004 10:14:40 AM PST by Scenic Sounds (Sí, estamos libres sonreír otra vez - ahora y siempre.)
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To: mlocher

"if you do not like doing what your company is paying you to do, find a different job. from my perspective it is immoral to accept a pay check when you have not fulfilled your end of the bargain."

Most of these pharmacists have made their position known to their employer at the time of hiring, so they in fact have "fulfilled their end of the bargain". Stealing a prescription cannot be justified, however.


232 posted on 11/09/2004 10:14:43 AM PST by armydoc
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To: jwalsh07

"LOL, a bit of hyperbole always gets the thread juices flowing."

Hyperbole? I was just talking about my weekend ;)


233 posted on 11/09/2004 10:15:02 AM PST by MonaMars
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To: Phantom Lord
"you not only voted for Barak Obama, but you also enjoy a sexual relationship with a donkey."

I did not vote for Obama!

234 posted on 11/09/2004 10:15:08 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: Modernman

From my lurking experience in the DU website, I'd say they would probably be divided about the issue (tehere are a few reasonable guys over there after all), but the debate would be totally uncivil, with insults and shrill calls to denounce the Republicanization of the Democratic party, or some other nonsense.

I must admit even I was surprised at the very logical approach displayed on this here thread.


235 posted on 11/09/2004 10:15:34 AM PST by Atlantic Friend
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To: Pitiricus
anti-gay marriage but for gay civil rights are the majority...

Can you tell me which "civil rights" I have as a heterosexual that a homosexual does not have?

236 posted on 11/09/2004 10:15:46 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: Pitiricus
The employee thing is an diversion. So is the question about "in stock"

If the owner pharmacist refused, what then?

237 posted on 11/09/2004 10:16:02 AM PST by Protagoras (Pedophiles are pedophiles, even if they are female.)
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To: Pitiricus
Or did I land in teheran by mistake? Or in Romania before the revolution?

In Cuba, you can bet this recalcitrant pharmacist would have been punished and likely sent to a government clinic for "reprogramming."

238 posted on 11/09/2004 10:16:46 AM PST by JCEccles
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To: Scenic Sounds
Government said they wanted to create something they call aviation!

Government created aviation? Thats new to me.

239 posted on 11/09/2004 10:16:59 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: JCEccles

But in communist Romania he would have gotten a medal...


240 posted on 11/09/2004 10:17:38 AM PST by Pitiricus
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