Posted on 05/03/2005 5:33:17 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
Rebecca Polzin walked into a drugstore in Glencoe, Minn., last month to fill a prescription for birth control. A routine request. Or so she thought.
Minutes later, Polzin left furious and empty-handed. She said the pharmacist on duty refused to help her. "She kept repeating the same line: 'I won't fill it for moral reasons,' " Polzin said.
Earlier this year, Adriane Gilbert called a pharmacy in Richfield to ask if her birth-control prescription was ready. She said the person who answered told her to go elsewhere because he was opposed to contraception. "I was shocked," Gilbert said. "I had no idea what to do."
The two women have become part of an emotional debate emerging across the country: Should a pharmacist's moral views trump a woman's reproductive rights?
No one knows how many pharmacists in Minnesota or nationwide are declining to fill contraceptive prescriptions. But both sides in the debate say they are hearing more reports of such incidents -- and they predict that conflicts at drugstore counters are bound to increase.
"Five years ago, we didn't have evidence of this, and we would have been dumbfounded to see it," said Sarah Stoesz, president of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. "We're not dumbfounded now. We're very concerned about what's happening."
But M. Casey Mattox of the Center for Law and Religious Freedom said it is far more disturbing to see pharmacists under fire for their religious beliefs than it is to have women inconvenienced by taking their prescription to another drugstore. He also said that laws have long shielded doctors opposed to abortion from having to take part in the procedure.
"The principle here is precisely the same," Mattox said.
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Cool. I never knew that. I always needed to get out more and have more recreation.
Bullimia is a mortal sin. People who practice binging and purging without repentance will face damnation.
Is that clear?
FR is such an educational forum. I never knew that birth control pills were recreational drugs! Groovy!
Hmm ... lets see. From all this contraceptive and abortion research we've also branched out into in vitro fertilization and cloning. Now we have people insisting employers cover birth control, that pharmacists dispense related medications without question, that doctors must perform abortions and other procedures against their morals, and (soon) in vitro fertilization in insurance plans.
It appears we are moving along on schedule.
Why would a Christian go to a Muslim doctor?
Prayers for your conversion and growth in faith sister.
Is that clear?
Why don't you pray on that, Hermann - pray that it becomes clear to me. If you're right and God responds favorably to your prayers, it might be clear to me by sundown.
I'll report back to you later. ;-)
Any use of the Pill is cooperation in the evil of providing the Pill to society at large. A consistent person would not wish to entangle themselves with a device whoe normal use they oppose. You might not be aborting anyone yourself, but by helping make the use of the pill very widespread and acceptable, you indirectly are.
Three of my sister-in-law's four children were conceived while she was "on the pill" to "regulate menstruation". She didn't fail in using it, it failed her.
Thanks.
"To whore" is to corrupt by lewd intercourse.
"A whore" is someone who has unlawful sex.
The law and morality (lewdness) referred to there in common useage in the Anglosphere is that of classical Christianity. That would then include by common understanding of Christian sexual morality the specific sins of fornication, adultery, incest, prostitution, sodomy, rape (by the rapist), and unnatural intercourse (i.e. using birth control). See the classic explanation in any number of theological manuals such as the Summa of St. Thomas.
Surely you know more than a couple of people who could fit into that definition. Or do you wish to go about redefining words on us because they make you uncomfortable?
I want you to be honest. I've avoided putting words into your mouth, giving you ample opportunity to explain just what it is you believe and why.
I am led to surmise not that you "like to kill babies" but that you value the utility and convenience of birth control pills more than you value life at its earliest stages.
Is that a fair statement?
SD
If you continue with untreated endometriosis you may not have any fertility anyway. 30 percent of infertility in women is caused by endometriosis.
But, hey, that's your problem, not mine.
No, it's just killing babies. /sarc
Perhaps we should boycott the manufacturers? There's McNeil, of course they also make Tylemol, Motrin, Floxin, etc. And there's Wyeth who makes Premarin. But then they also make Advil, Centrum, and Chapstick, etc. So every time someone purchases one of these products they are supporting the manufacturer of the Pill and other birth control devices. After all, why would you support someone who makes birth control pills? You don't, do you?
SD
I see you're riling up the constituents. LOL!
A Coca Cola company may be able, for a time, to use its regular Coke profits to shore up a failing market in, say, Surge. But if there is no public outcry for more Surge, it will stop being made.
So refusing to buy Surge or participate in Surge-buying activity sends the message that Surge is not a desired product. While buying Surge sends the message that Surge is desired and allows others to access it.
SD
The PURPOSE of the pill is to abortive. If it doesn't obtain its purpose, it's still an abortive.
That's like saying the abortion pill is not an abortion pill until is aborts. Until then it's just 'a pill'. It has a purpose, sold for that purpose and the money gained from it goes to line the pockets of those support this purpose.
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