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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I was arguing with you? News to me. I thought that was a legitimate question. Since when is asking a question, arguing?
What is your masters in?
Ah yes, those were the days. Beating up pipsqueaks for their lunch money, pulling feeding tubes ... *sighs wistfully*
But my grammar does. Okay.
It's their right not to sell whatever they don't wish to sell. They can run their business as they see fit. And if folks don't like it, they can go to a different pharmacy. Why is this so hard to figure out? What do you want to do, compel them to sell the pill with some grand benevolent new law? Maybe someone will compel you to run your business as THEY see fit.
I'm 24, finishing my Master's Degree. I graduated from the University of North Texas in 2003 and work as a freelance social worker, pro-life lobbyist.
Is that missing from the screen for some of y'all?
SD
How did you find my blog?
I don't have one; my chosen career doesn't require it, and I took a great job offer instead of sticking around to earn further degrees. If you decided to take the opposite track, good for you. But you ought to be aware that the only people that rate people's worthiness based on their pieces of paper are those who spend all their time seeking the pieces of paper. Are you planning a career in academia?
I forgot that was on there. Great- now I have enticed you and other people with nothing better to do.
Then you should stop talking about mine. By the way, finishing is over. It's done. I should change that...
Well, it doesn't necessarily merit response, but your poor grammar and spelling, along with a monstrous know-it-all attitude, certainly invite mockery.
I learned how to do stuff like that when I got my doctorate.
Please, mock away...I have a job to do.
Mocking me also gives you a break from defending various forms of legalized murder.
Ok, now I'm done.
Al Gore's internet is a wonderful thing, isn't it?
The long post justifying why you don't have one shows a little bit of insecurity. If you don't have one, and you don't need one, why the excessive posts mocking that that do?
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