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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Such as a Jewish or Hindu doctor?
You completely missed the point. Let's try again.
You say that buying and taking the pill, even a non-sexually active woman who takes it, contributes to the "evil" drug companies, and helps make it available for other women to use it as an abortive.
If I buy a gun, even if I don't intend to use it, by contributing to gun companies, I am helping to make guns more available to those who wish to use a gun to commit murder.
I find that hard to believe. I've never had an OB-GYN "push" birth control on me. I don't even recall any of them raising the subject. They probably figured if I wanted it, I'd ask. Perhaps other females here could provide additional first-hand information on the topic.
"Very well said. At first I thought this guy's posts were a joke, but now I see he really means it and that absolutely sickens me."
I considered that he might be a troll, too, but you never know. It always amazes me that people insist that their faith should trump all other considerations in every situation, not appreciating that others with far less palatable beliefs will demand the exact same right.
Same here. Never happened.
As a Catholic, if I go to my local Catholic hospital, I am fairly assured of treatment by a Catholic doctor, and certainly treatment in line with the moral norms of the Church.
Do you have more than 2 children?
I do not agree with that one bit!!!! If you are a sexual person you are going to have the same amount of sex! You can get pregnant whether you have sex one time or 100 times.
I do not agree with that one bit!!!! If you are a sexual person you are going to have the same amount of sex!
Disagree all you want, it doesn't change a thing. Contraceptives encourage people to have more and more frequent sex. It's elementary.
You can get pregnant whether you have sex one time or 100 times.
Sigh. You are much more likely to get pregnant over 100 sessions than you are with just one. Yes, just one can knock you up. But repeated efforts make the statistics different. This is just simple math.
A girl who has sex on Prom night is less likely to become pregnant than the girl who has sex every weekend of her senior year.
SD
"As a Catholic, if I go to my local Catholic hospital, I am fairly assured of treatment by a Catholic doctor, and certainly treatment in line with the moral norms of the Church."
I see. So when you get in a car accident on some highway and need immediate care to save your life, you'll insist that they take you to a Catholic hospital even though it might be 3 times as far as the nearest hospital? Well, good luck with that.
It would probably help your understanding if you didn't work off the assumption that Catholics were ignoramuses. Nothing Herman said would lead a reasonable person to conclude that he would turn down emergency care from a competent source.
For elective care we are free to elect doctors and hospitals of our choice. Is that difficult to understand?
SD
Do you live on a bus?
You'll have to excuse the portion of us who still believe people are better than animals.
SD
Mankind is differentiated from animals in that we are able to control our urges. Otherwise whenever a woman was ovulating, guys would come running after her like dogs chasing a dog in heat.
"For elective care we are free to elect doctors and hospitals of our choice. Is that difficult to understand?"
Try reading our entire exchange. I discussed an emergency situation. He responded by saying he wouldn't choose a musim doctor. I again mentioned an emergency. He said he'd choose a Catholic hospital. I again mentioned an emergency, which, by necessity, limits election. If I'm talking about an emergency and someone keeps bringing up choice as the most important factor in said situation, it hardly seems inappropriate for me to reiterate my point. If someone like yourself feels the need to get bent out of shape over my desire to keep the discussion on point, that's hardly my problem. Is that difficult to understand?
"It would probably help your understanding if you didn't work off the assumption that Catholics were ignoramuses. Nothing Herman said would lead a reasonable person to conclude that he would turn down emergency care from a competent source."
I am Catholic. As to your second statement, that all depends on his definition of competent source, doesn't it?
Next time I see someone post "Theresa Marie Schindler, Martyr for the Gospel of Life, pray for us", I'll refer them to your post for clarification.
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