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To: wideawake
It is not a pharmacist's professional obligation as a pharmacist to dispense abortifacients

Is it not a pharmacists job to fill and dispense prescriptions given to their customers by their doctors?

If a pharmacists employer allows them to refuse to fill certain prescriptions because it violates their religious beliefs, that is fine. No problem. But if the pharmacists employer does not allow this, then the pharmacist has two choices. Fill the prescriptions or quit.

And in this case as it has been noted several times, it is not Walgreens that makes them fill the prescriptions, it is state law. So the pharmacists have 3 options. Fill the prescriptions, quit, or get the law changed.

54 posted on 12/02/2005 9:33:37 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Phantom Lord
Is it not a pharmacists job to fill and dispense prescriptions given to their customers by their doctors?

If a doctor wants to kill a customer and and gives a prescription that requires the pharmacist to dispense a large dose of potassium cyanide, the pharmacist has a professional responsibility not to help murder them.

Do you want argue the contrary?

I'll note parenthetically that "job description" and "professional responsibility" are not synonyms.

69 posted on 12/02/2005 9:41:50 AM PST by wideawake
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So the pharmacists have 3 options. Fill the prescriptions, quit, or get the law changed.

Option 3,"Getting the law changed" sounds good, in the long run.

Otherwise laws could be passed that insist all obstetricians perform abortions when asked to do so.

112 posted on 12/02/2005 11:03:07 AM PST by syriacus (There oughtta be a law -- that the image of every pill sold in the US is on one government website)
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