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

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

[TravisBickle]

I'd bet if an Wal-Mart employee refused to sell guns, he'd be labeled a left-wing hero!

[DJ MacWoW]

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.

Did you try finding "Unfit for Command"?

[atlaw]

This drug is designed for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to end life

This is about dispensing drugs which are designed to end a human life.

Actually, the emergency contraceptive at issue here cannot interrupt or disrupt an established pregnancy. In short, it is ineffective if a woman is pregnant. Plan B is a contraceptive, not an abortion pill. Am I to take it that you view all contraceptives as morally equivalent to abortion?

[Christian4Bush]

This is the side of the abortion argument on which the Left never focuses. Howard Dean can say all day long that the government should "stay out of a woman's healthcare" (what he calls it), yet he doesn't realize (or DOES realize, and just doesn't care) that the government (of which the judiciary is a branch) INVOLVED ITSELF with the Roe v. Wade decision.

As a result, doctors must perform a procedure that they may find morally reprehensible, or lose their job. If they must complete an AB that was botched, and they refuse to do so on moral grounds, they can be sued. If they refuse to fill a prescription at the pharmacy, they can be fired. Yet Howard "Yeearghhh" Dean doesn't give a damn about these people, and never will. In the end, it's all about the money.

Perhaps while the Dims are trying to paint Republicans as evil because they merely know how to pronounce the word "Abramoff", someday we'll learn how many Rolls Royces these elected officials have been able to buy, due to donated money from lobby/left wing causes (from, unfortunately, both sides of the aisle).

[wagglebee]

Yes, legally these women have a right to have this prescription filled. That doesn't mean she needs to be a participant.

[Skooz]

Thank you. Yours is the only reply favoring her firing that has any logic or reasoning behind it.

[tumblindice]

It's something like walking into a bookstore and asking for
a conservative author, and the clerk--with purple hair-tint
and a ring through his nose--gives you the old "stink-eye".
To paraphrase Laura I.: "I don't want to argue with you--s***-up and fetch me the book/pills."

[TheDon]

Planned Parenthood has spearheaded efforts across the US to mandate that pharmacists co-operate in chemical abortion.

The Brownshirts are back.

It would be nice to have a list of pharmacies that don't provide abortifacients for us to support.

[Coleus]

Just like the implanted IUD,

it allows fertilization to take place, a new life is made and then the embryo gets aborted.

and not to mention the many who spread and contract STD's by not using a latex barrier.

and I remember a time when "they" said that "the pill" would end abortion and unwanted pregnancies.

[Txsleuth]

Thanks for the ping..

[DJ MacWoW]

It's not a lie. That Target doesn't carry Plan B.

Then how could they fire her? Only because she didn't tell them where to go? If so, that makes this even worse for Target, IMO.

[atlaw]

Are you also against use or distribution of regular birth control pills?

[LouAvul]

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.

Barnes and Noble in Kalifornia did that. I'm not sure which book, but it seems it was the one by the Swift Boat Vets re John limp-wrist Kerry.

[Mr. Blonde]

This is different. Most doctors are their own boss. She isn't, she is required to do what her boss says.

[Christian4Bush]

If he's working for Planned Parenthood then he's probably going to be required to perform abortions, if he doesn't like it he probably shouldn't get a job with Planned Parenthood

Agreed. It's like a stripper complaining that nudity offends her.

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Last I checked, nudity, or being a stripper, didn't kill an unborn child.

And "Planned (Un)Parenthood" has a much more narrow focus than a pharmacy at Target. I don't associate a Target pharmacy with abortions.

[linda_22003]

Apparently she wouldn't sign some form on the topic that Target sent out late last year. The whole story is in the St. Louis dispatch story. Just Google "Heather Williams" and "Target".

[Coleus]

When "the pill" came out it was supposed to END unwanted pregnancies and abortion.

Look what happened?

and those who are not monogamous and only rely on "the pill" contract AIDS and other STD's since they do not use a latex barrier.

[flada]

Or open your own pharmacy. When you work for someone else, you pretty much do what they require.

[LouAvul]

Another reason not to shop there...

What are the other reasons?

[wagglebee]

Actually, this drug prevents an embryo from attaching to the uterine wall, this results in the abortion/death of the embryo. The entire question about abortion has always centered upon whether life begins at conception or birth. If you believe (as most conservatives do) that life begins at conception, then "Plan B" is abortion.