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]
Not logically correct. A doctor prescribed the pill. It is the pharmacist's job to fill whatever prescription was called for by the doctor. If the pharmacist wishes to make decisions like this, he or she can start a private practice like your doctor who won't give abortions.
Ditto to that.
As well they should. It is a legal product and she has a prescription for it.
If he personally doesn't want to fill the prescription he can give it back to her and she can take it to someone who will. Just when did he suddenly acquire the right to steal her property? When did he acquire the right to make moral judgements for her?
Even if you don't believe in birth control, even if you don't want to dispense birth control pills, it's still wrong to confiscate someone else's prescription.
Not to mention presumptuous.
First of all, she paid good money for that prescription.
Second, how does anybody know what the pills are for? Some women take BC pills because they have heavy bleeding and other medical reasons. It helps regulate their cycle. The woman may be totally abstinent.
Maybe he shouldn't sell Coca Cola either - people HAVE tried to use that as a contraceptive rinse, before...
if "your" pharmacist believes in moral values that do not meet yours, simply go to another - do not FORCE your (immoral to him) values on him.
I do not follow any "Christian Scientist" or other like religious system, I am simply speaking on the CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES.
Contraception is not the only reason BCP's are prescribed.
True. That is why I said early in the thread that if the pharmacist is NOT the owner, they have 2 choices. Quit or dispence the drugs.
If someone tries to FORCE me into doing something I believe is immoral, my shotgun will rule. That is why we have our SECOND AMENDMENT to protect us from TYRANICAL GOVERNMENTS (mainly our own if need be)
So what your saying is that if I hired you as a bartender and you then got a religious aversion to serving alcohol that you would shoot me if I demanded you do your job?
He should be fired and then he should stand trial for theft.
"If someone tries to FORCE me into doing something I believe is immoral, my shotgun will rule."
I hardly think the pharmacist is being "forced" here. The gal just wanted her pills. If this pharmacist is so freaking uptight about it, why does he have "the pill" in his shop in the first place? If he didn't, then all he would have had to say was "we don't carry that here".
Put your shotgun down, calm down and think it through. This pharmacist did himself and his cause signficant harm with his actions.
Woah, guys, you're starting to use the same sorts of arguments that pro-abortion people use. Better watch that, now.
"I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art."
Does that oath mean anything to you? Or is it just, like a suggestion?
Indeed, my wife has taken them for years to control her endometriosis symptoms.
Depends. If in his hiring it was part of the contract that he would not perform such procedures then an agreement was reached between employer and employee regarding employment requirements.
If he owns the practice he can refuse to do whatever procedures he wants. Its his business.
Incorrect. Birth control pills act as abortifacients on embryos when the pills fail in their attempt to prevent fertilization.
Unless he was the one sleeping with her, how did he know?
The DU's freaking out about this, citing it as the next nail in their coffin. I think the pill is one of the greatest goods that came out of the 20th century: people who are unqualified to have children didn't have children. Less suffering, no murder of unborn children. If republicans started waging a war on the pill, I'd vote dem in that election cycle.
As well they should.
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