[Phantom Lord]

Then one day last March, the pharmacist refused to fill Lacey's prescription because she did not believe in birth control.

This is just wrong. If the pharmacist does not OWN the pharmacy they have 2 choices. Quit, or dispense drugs as the owner sees fit.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Pharmacists job is to fill the Prescription, not to moralize or judge.

[EggsAckley]

I agree. This is really thin ice, and will NOT help the pro-life movement, only hurt it.

[vikk]

I sure hope that my pharmacist doesn't become a Christian Scientist.

[philomath]

correct. also the MD should have weighed in with the board of pharmacy and recommended suspension of licensure until this oaf pharmacist learned not to practice medicine.

[Pitiricus]

I quite agree... The pharmacist hasn't the right to impose his/her values...

[mlocher]

Some pharmacists, however, disagree and refuse on moral grounds to fill prescriptions for contraceptives. And states from Rhode Island to Washington have proposed laws that would protect such decisions.

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.

[robertpaulsen]

Doesn't a pharmacist take the Hippocratic Oath? You know, the part that says:

"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?

[Diamond]

I not so sure I buy into the details of this story. There is just something fishy about it.

I wonder if this the same Charisse Jones:

Shifting is the story of Black women.

Through the centuries, to cope with racial and gender discrimination, African American women have at times altered their speech, appearance, and behavior. They have shifted emotionally as they struggled to feel good about themselves in a hostile world. And often, in myriad ways, they have fought back. We, Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden, have attempted to shine a light on the double lives of Black women in America. Our African American Women's Voices Project gathered the stories of 400 women from all walks of life and every corner of the country who spoke about their triumphs and challenges on the job, raising Black children, in romantic relationships and in recognizing their own beauty. Their voices provide powerful and poignant insights into the psychology of Black women. We believe Shifting is a valuable tool for all Black women and for anyone who cares about them or the state of race and gender relations in our society.

Do you ever feel that you are working overtime to put others at ease? Or that you have to leave your true self at the door in order to placate White colleagues? Do you downplay your abilities or strengths for fear of outshining Black men? Do you speak one way at the office, another way to your girlfriends? Is it sometimes a struggle to feel good about your looks? Are you constantly battling stereotypes?

Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to compromise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift." They change the expectations they have for themselves. Or they alter their outer appearance. They modify their speech. They shift 'white' as they head to work in the morning and 'black' as they come back home each night. They shift inward, internalizing the searing pain of the negative stereotypes that they encounter daily. And sometimes they shift by fighting back.

[Lurking2Long]

What a herd of RINOs you all are!

[Protagoras]

This is just wrong. If the pharmacist does not OWN the pharmacy they have 2 choices. Quit, or dispense drugs as the owner sees fit.

If they are the owner they can do what they please. If they are an employee, the owner can fire them or give them a raise at his pleasure.

[DannyTN]

"This is just wrong. If the pharmacist does not OWN the pharmacy they have 2 choices. Quit, or dispense drugs as the owner sees fit."

Other Options:

• Refuse to dispense the drugs and make the chance the pharmacy owner choose whether or not to fire them over their refusal to commit murder
• Lobby for legislation that prevents them from being fired for moral choices, which has been sucessful in some states.

  What is wrong is asking a phamacist to assist in commiting murder.

[Melas]

Have no fear, what the pharmacist did was illegal in Texas. Other pharmacists have been disciplined for the same thing, and so will this one.