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To: HairOfTheDog

"Pharmacists who can't give out pills they don't agree with need to get out of the profession of pharmacy. It's simply not their job."


Pharmacists are health professionals, not servants or slaves of the patient. They are NOT obligated to fill every prescription that comes their way. They may refuse to fill any prescription they wish, and they do not even have to explain specifically why. The Pharmacist would be wrong to enter into a discussion of the morality of the issue, in an attempt to "convert" the patient to a particular set of beliefs. He might just choose to say that he cannot prescribe that medication due to his moral beliefs. Similarly the patient is wrong to expect that someone who believes that the morning after pill is murder MUST dispense that medication, and thereby violate his conscience. the patient has every right to go elsewhere.


401 posted on 05/05/2005 12:54:12 PM PDT by Bushforlife (I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born. ~Ronald Reagan)
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To: Bushforlife

On consideration I'll concede that. And if they work in a pharmacy that agrees with those principles, more power to them. But pharmacies ought to be able to fire or refuse to hire employees who will not dispense the drugs the pharmacy sells.


404 posted on 05/05/2005 12:56:45 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (This horse has been milked to death.)
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To: Bushforlife

The Wisconsin state pharmacy board disagrees. They revoked the license of the pharmacist who refused to fill a prescription.


433 posted on 05/05/2005 2:43:30 PM PDT by Quick1
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