“”Catholics Need Not Apply” for health care jobs, is their position.”
Oh, please.
There are TONS of health care jobs that don’t require handing out birth control or the morning after pill. In fact, there are many more that don’t require it.
But if I own a pharmacy and you don’t want to dispense certain types of drugs, please don’t apply for a job. If you do and you refuse to follow my orders, you’re fired. That’s the way “jobs” work.
And not so long ago employers like you were able to fire employees for being of dark complexion or a woman.
Pharmacist. Hear that? Pharmacist. They dispense medicines.
Free market over conscience, right? That’s the new sacrosanct hierarcy...
Are you OK with the government telling you that you must dispense abortion pills, which is the trend now.
And the great thing about freedom and capitalism is that I, as a customer, am then free to boycott your pharmacy and encourage my co-religionists to do the same. And if you don't like the hit to your bottom line, you can change your policies. Or not.
However, what's happening in more than one locale is the government is stepping in and making what should be a set of private economic decisions between the pharmacy owner, the pharmacist, and the customer into a point of public policy. If all pharmacists are required to dispense, e.g., Plan B, then I no longer have the freedom to patronize one who does not, to say nothing of no longer having the freedom to be one who does not.