And just what, pray tell, do you think that a pharmacist's 'job' is? To fill every prescription that comes by without thought, like a machine? Pharmacists refuse to fill various presciptions every day for many different reasons: drug interactions, allergies, wrong doses, forgery, legal parameters, etc... They are individually licsened professionals and are entitled (and expected)to make use their own judgments, clinical and otherwise in their practice. The pharmacists in question feel that this medication causes fetal harm (as do many other medications that they would get sued for dispensing to a pregnant woman). They are absolutely justified in making the call to choose not to dipsense a drug that will result in a miscarriage/abortion and should not be punsihed for it. There are consience clauses for doctors and nurses, why not pharmacists? The patient can simply go to another pharmacy/pharmacist that has no problem dispensing it and still get access to this drug- they are not being denied access to 'women's health care'!
There is no comparison between the examples you give and refusal to perform your job.
Good try though.
And when one of those presciptions is presented. the pharmacist simply does not process it. And allows the person who presented it to leave and try at another pharmacy. Right.
As a Walgreens pharmacist, I thank you for your well informed post. I have a license, am not a robot, and am forced to make decisions that you listed every time I work.