Target Pharmacist Fired for Refusing to Dispense Abortifacient Morning-After Pill

Life Site News ^ | 1/27/06 | Terry Vanderheyden

[wagglebee]

She argues that to refer patients to a dispensary where they can find them is equally immoral. “I just can’t be a link in the chain at all,” Williams said.

She lost her job because the left only wants religious freedom to extend to those who despise religion.

[wagglebee]

Pro-life ping.

[Nachum]

There are other pharmacist jobs out there. Screw Target.

[One Proud Dad]

Good luck with the EEOC filing. My wife was fired in writing without cause after years of good service for telling her boss she was pregnant. We lost in a suit to reclaim back wages and cost of insurance for child.

[wagglebee]

Ping.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

“I just can’t be a link in the chain at all,”

Then find a different line of work.

[kimmie7]

That's an utterly foolish reply.

[wagglebee]

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[green iguana]

the Target store where she worked has never stocked Plan B.

So why didn't she say "We don't carry that prescription. Please try another pharmacy." Sounds like she brought it on herself.

[dangus]

If she had been working there before Target began selling "morning after" pills, essentially they added an unforeseen requirement which contradicts her religion, and she would seem to have a very strong basis for a lawsuit. She has invested in a career at Target, and there is damages done by having to start over at a new location.

What makes the actions of the governor so profoundly evil is that it prevents the workings of a free market. Sure, an employer has the right to tell an employee what to do, providing that the requirements do not create an adverse change in the working environment. An employee is free to seek work elsewhere, so the employer loses a potential asset in the employee, and his competitor gains an asset; this is how free market pressures would have solved the race problem in the South once unconstitutional laws were removed: it's bad business to drive good employees or customers away.

What Blogojevich has done is to make pharmacists have reason to fear accomodating a pro-life employee.

[TXBSAFH]

God, Bless her for her stand.

[wagglebee]

“I just can’t be a link in the chain at all,”

Then find a different line of work.

I assume that by your logic it would be okay for physicians to be required to perform abortions?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Pharmacists are one of the highest demand jobs in the country. She can get another job tomorrow.

[gdani]

I eagerly await walking into a bookstore only to have the clerk tell me she won't sell me the book I want because it offends his/her beliefs.

[swmobuffalo]

“I just can’t be a link in the chain at all,”

Then find a different line of work.

"That's an utterly foolish reply."

No actually it's not.

[wagglebee]

I eagerly await walking into a bookstore only to have the clerk tell me she won't sell me the book I want because it offends his/her beliefs.

That is a very flawed line of thinking.

A book doesn't directly lead to stopping a human life. You need to understand that disagreeing with a belief is very different from refusing to participate in a process which violates your beliefs.

[BigBadBrian]

go back to the baby-killing DU.

[3dognight]

I eagerly await walking into a bookstore only to have the clerk tell me she won't sell me the book I want because it offends his/her beliefs.

What an odd thing to eagerly await. Not selling you a book is morally equivalent to not helping you kill your unborn child?

[Prodn2000]

That's an utterly foolish reply. Not really. People don't really seem to grasp how ridiculous these people are acting. What if a pharmacist in, I don't know..., California doesn't want to dispense Zocor or Plavix (life saving cardiovascular drugs) because it is against their religion to support the corporation that makes those drugs. In America, with freedom of religion, whatever you want can be your religion.

[wagglebee]

“I just can’t be a link in the chain at all,”

Then find a different line of work.

"That's an utterly foolish reply."

No actually it's not.

Yes it is. If a physician was required to perform abortions there would be outrage -- this is no different at all.