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To: MeanWestTexan
"Go work for (or own) a pharmacy that shares your views."

The problem is that some states and/or courts are now forcing companies to sell contraceptives, to include contraceptives in their health plans, etc. If they had their way, abortion rights activists will force Catholic hospitals to perform abortions etc. So it's not quite as simple as you suggest for people with moral objections to these things to find alternatives.
99 posted on 12/02/2005 10:16:01 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

"The problem is that some states and/or courts are now forcing companies to sell contraceptives, to include contraceptives in their health plans, etc."

Interesting that you should mention contraceptives. What if you went into Walgreen's with your prescription for birth control pills or even just to buy a pack of condoms, and the Roman Catholic pharmacists behind the counter wouldn't sell them? After all, Roman Catholics consider it sinful to use contraceptives. Is that OK, too? There's a line to be drawn here somewhere.

For me, the line is that I do not allow others to dictate such things to me, as a customer. If my doctor and I have decided that I need some medication, the religious beliefs of the pharmacist at my local Walgreens is irrelevant.

The pharmacist is not taking the medication. I am. It is my choice, in conference with my physician. Let the pharmacist avoid using whatever drugs he wishes. It is my prescription, not his.

Using the logic being presented here, there would be no problem with that Roman Catholic pharmacist refusing to fill any contraceptive prescriptions. He's not the one taking them.


103 posted on 12/02/2005 10:31:13 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: Steve_Seattle
So it's not quite as simple as you suggest for people with moral objections to these things to find alternatives.

It seems there should be a "conscientious objector" status for pro-life pharmacists.

115 posted on 12/02/2005 11:10:25 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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