Posted on 10/05/2008 12:12:12 PM PDT by forkinsocket
A woman was refused the "morning-after pill" by a supermarket's duty pharmacist because it was against his religious beliefs.
Ruth Johnson, 33, who has two children, including a month-old baby, had not been using her usual method of contraception with her fiancée.
She went to the Tesco dispensary in Hewitts Circus, Cleethorpes, Lincs, and asked an as assistant for the pill Levanelle.
Miss Johnson was told it could only be dispensed by the locum pharmacist who was called to speak with her.
She said: "He came out from behind a screen and told me that he would not be allowing me to buy the pill from him because he had a right to refuse to sell it on the basis of his personal beliefs.
"The pharmacist was of Asian origin so I asked him if it was because of his religion and he replied 'Yes'."
Miss Johnson, from Cleethorpes, was left feeling ashamed and worried and complained to the store manager who told her they couldn't force the pharmacist to sell the product.
She said: "I asked him if a Jewish or Muslim checkout operator could refuse to sell pork or alcohol or if a Jehovah's Witness could refuse to sell birthday and Christmas cards."
Her concern is that the policy could deter teenage girls from seeking the morning-after pill.
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Unless he's the owner, he is.
That's none of your business since he/she never knew that part of that job was supposed to be killing.
Any transaction between your wife and her Doctor - is just that - a transaction between her and her Doctor.
It is not in any way a transaction between her and the pharmacist - who is free to make, or not make whatever transaction he or she wishes with your wife.
Your lack of discernment and intellect is truly staggering.
Wanting to purchase something on your part does not in any way translate into a right to demand a business person stock and sell it to you - whether it is a brand of soft drink, performance tires of a certain size, or a medication.
Your wife may have a script making it legal for her to buy a certain pill, but that is all the Doctor has given her - a scrip that makes it legal to buy. Not some Imperial decree that requires subjects to obey a noble.
FWIW-
It IS his damned business.
The morning after pill is an abortifacient and the law allows doctors to refuse to murder unborn babies and pharmacists the right to not give a pill that kills an implanted fetus.
Ed
If that was the case SOME patients would be DEAD! You obviously don't know much about a pharmacist's job.
God bless you and your new baby.
So, who do you think is the better judge of the way to practice pharmacy ~ a trained, college educated pharmacist or an old whore?P>That’s the only question here.
I got my tie tongued....
Your raving is on par with the government compelling citizens to man the firing squad for executions. How blustery of you.
I’d laugh if it wasn’t so sad...
I doubt if there have ever been more fiances in the world than there are right now. That’s big commitment, you know.
/s
Wow, best post. Thank you!
You can get something like that in most third-world countries.
Frankly, I prefer someone with a college education, a very good knowledge of chemistry, and licensure as a pharmacist for my pharmaceutical needs.
Your attempt to lower the standards tht keep us safe has been noted.
“Ruth Johnson, 33, who has two children, including a month-old baby, had not been using her usual method of contraception with her fiancée.”
What a world!
Obama Doesn’t Want His Daughters Punished with a Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNzmly28Bmg
CNN on Obama’s Infant Born Alive Act Rejection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPZCXcTwZPY
Jill Stanek on Obama and Born Alive Infant Protection Act (MUST SEE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIdbYjmbFzo
Obama Cover-up Revealed On Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Bill
http://www.nrlc.org/ObamaBAIPA/ObamaCoverup.html
Explosive Audio Found Obama arguing against BAIPA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypDwNpgIUQc
Babies left to die!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIdbYjmbFzo
It made it a better 'story' to complain to a newspaper about a whore trying to kill a baby because she didn't plan ahead with her 'fiancee'.
EXACTLY!
Musims = Scum of the earth.
???
No one has said anything about who is in charge of the pharmacy. All I have said is that it's none of the pharmacist's business to decide whether or not to dispense the birth control pills.
Frankly, I prefer someone with a college education, a very good knowledge of chemistry, and licensure as a pharmacist for my pharmaceutical needs.
No one has suggested that the script was written by the doctor in error. No one has suggested that there was a medical error. As such, his knowledge of pharmacology is irrelevant.
And the old whore? Certainly you jest! And you are the one who said the old whore should be able to make a decision that the pharmacist should be bound to obey.
Get serious.
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