Posted on 11/24/2004 9:09:45 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
A pharmacist refused to sell the morning-after pill to a mother-of-two - because he's a Catholic.
Kerrie Gooch, 24, who has a nine-week-old baby and a two-year-old was forced to go to a clinic instead, reports the Daily Mirror.
She plans to sue if she falls pregnant and asked: "What gives him the right to play God?
"Everyone is entitled to an opinion but I don't want someone making a decision like this for me.
Kerrie's problem began when the condom she and her long-term partner, aged 22, were using split.
Kerrie then went to a Lloyds Pharmacy in Swindon, but the Catholic pharmacist refused to dispense the morning-after pill because of his views on contraception.
There was no other pharmacist on hand so she ended up going to an NHS Walk-In Centre six hours later.
Andy Murdock, Lloyds' pharmacy director, said: "He objected on religious grounds, which he is fully within his rights to do.
"Another member of staff, and a supervisor, had lengthy discussions with Ms Gooch and partner. They were given advice as to alternative sources."
She got her murder weapons from another source - what is her bitch? That everyone else does not condone the murder of innocent babies through chemical poisoning?
He's a business owner; that's his right to "play God".
He doesn't have to sell any product he doesn't want to sell.
I would suggest she keep her legs closed and clothes on until she finds a husband.
"What gives him the right to play God?"
This is the entire crux: the pharmacist is making life and death decisions - not her.
All such idiots should be driven from normal society and forced to live in scrub woodlands, culverts, under bridges and other wasteland refuges. Sterilize them and take their children first - then turn them loose to live free or die or whatever the hell it is they have tattooed on their boobs and @ss cheeks.
Leave my woodlands alone!!!!!!
You have, of course, the complete freedom to shoot small game and vermin at anytime of the year on your own property without permit.
There's another damn coyote......
One in heat, no doubt.
One less democrat to be voting in 18-years:) Abortion is a 65-35 liberal option over republicans. This really translates to fewer potential welfare-state entitlists.
God bless him!
Priceless!
Go to another pharmacy
Actually, note that this has happened in the UK not the US. So this person wouldn't be a Democrat (or a Republican). Perhaps, Labour or Liberal Democrat or even Conservative. However, this person might very well be a "welfare-entitlist" - as most people are in the UK. Of course, because of the strong socialist welfare system (which I personally disagree with) that means that all those babies you don't want aborted are actually supported with housing, food, cash, etc. for their whole lives rather than just for a couple of years of welfare as in the US.
I personally don't see anything wrong with the Morning After Pill - and I'm quite disturbed by the refusal. I was under the impression that this kind of moralising behavior was happening only in places where orthodox religionists are in power (e.g. Saudi Arabia or increasingly in America). I'm very unhappy to see that it's happening here, too.
The drug is legal in the UK and not only that, but can be sold "over the counter" - though there are lots of "over the counter" drugs that have to be dispensed by a pharmacist here - from cough medicine to strong anti-fungal athlete's foot cream.
Also note that this person went to an NHS clinic afterwards- which is the National Health Service - so that moralising refusal meant that a drug she was happy to pay for herself was instead paid for by the UK taxpayer. As they'd say here it was a "bit of an own-goal" for the forces of conservatism.
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