Prescription for firings: Call Walgreens boycott

WorldNetDaily ^ | 12/3/05 | WorldNetDaily

[wagglebee]

This boycott needs to be taken nationwide.

[evad]

..four pharmacists, on unpaid leave for refusing to agree to fill orders for the morning-after contraceptive pill, are reinstated.

Why would any employer agree to reinstate any employee who fails to do their job?

This boycott, like most boycotts, is misguided.

[wagglebee]

Ping.

The Catholic Diocese of Belleville in Illinois is organizing a boycott of Walgreens for firing pharmacists for refusing to dispense "morning after" pills.

[Balding_Eagle]

The boycott is against the wrong entity. They were jsut following state law, as I understand things.

The State of IL should be the target.

[flashbunny]

The boycott is idiotic.

As previous articles have stated, Walgreen's has offered the pharmacists employment in Missouri, where they don't have such a law.

Walgreen's has to follow the state law. If they don't, they could be fined. They could also lose their pharmacy license. And not to mention the countless lawsuits that could be brought against them.

Calling for a boycott of Walgreen's when they are following the law AND offered the pharmacists employment where they wouldn't have to dispense these pills is pathetic.

People should be working on getting the law overturned...but in Illinois, that would be hard work. So they do the easy thing and call for a boycott of a company that is doing its best in a bad situation.

Either the people calling for a boycott are too dense to realize what's really going on, or they're so starved for attention they'll organize a boycott against a company that could really do no better than what it's already doing.

[I_like_good_things_too]

Right-- people should boycott Illinois, not Walgreens.

[flashbunny]

"The State of IL should be the target."

That would be too much work. The state is run by liberals and they would have a really hard time getting the law overturned.

Instead, some geniuses want to boycott a company that has to follow a bad law, and has already offered these employees jobs in another state where they wouldn't have to follow the bad law.

Some people don't take the time to think things through.

[jim_trent]

Why? It is against the law in that state for the pharmacists to refuse. They can either (1) get the law changed, (2) move to another state that does not have that law, or, (3) go into another business. You are asking Walgreens to break the law in order to get your business. I don't believe that is EVER going to happen.

[Petronski]

Great motive, wrong target.



The Illinois law is the proper target, along with any politician who voted for it.

[wagglebee]

After reconsidering, I agree. However, I do think that it would be proper for Walgreens to assist in a campaign to force Illinois to change it's law.

[Petronski]

Well, I didn't mean to pile on, and I should like very much to see Walgreens help, but ultimately it has to be a grass-roots campaign of Illinoisans and National Right-to-Life organizations to get the law changed.


And was it Blagojevich who changed the law by executive order? If memory serves, and I think it does, this is his doing. He should be given a few months warning of excommunication, and then if need be, excommunicated.


The very hand of Rome is needed here, or the next step will be elimination of conscience clauses for doctors and nurses wishing to avoid entanglement in abortion that is here and the euthanasia that is coming.

[Cobra64]

The sponsors of the boycott should just dial 1-800-CINDY, or 1-800-GRETA; so we can listen to this crap for a few months.

[gcruse]

The very hand of Rome is needed here

Lets keep the Vatican out of American politics, okay?  Or do you want no more Catholics elected to public office?

[wagglebee]

I would like to see the Vatican follow through and excommunicate every politician who ever votes in favor of abortion or signs a law supporting abortion.

[Petronski]

Lets keep the Vatican out of American politics, okay?

Uh, no. Not okay.

[ARCADIA]

"Why would any employer agree to reinstate any employee who fails to do their job? This boycott, like most boycotts, is misguided."

I agree; you should either abide with your employer's policy or resign.

[wagglebee]

What would you do if a new law was enacted that made you violate your religious beliefs?

[Tx Angel]

I agree.

As being "Pro-Life", I would simply quit my job. There is always alternate employment (for those motivated enough to look).

Don't blame Walgreens for expecting an employee to actually do their job.