Posted on 07/13/2022 3:24:22 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Biden administration is warning pharmacies not to discriminate against women who may seek reproductive health prescriptions, including some that might be involved in ending a pregnancy.
The Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday that pharmacies receiving federal money from programs such as Medicare and Medicaid cannot discriminate in how they supply medications or advise patients on prescriptions.
The agency noted that discrimination against people based on their pregnancy or related conditions would be a form of sex discrimination.
The announcement comes as the administration seeks to ensure reproductive health services for women following last month’s Supreme Court decision that ended a constitutional right to abortion.
On Monday, the administration told hospitals that they “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk. The government said federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions. Now, all states provide an exception for the life of the mother.
The department’s guidance to pharmacies outlined several hypothetical examples of potential discrimination. They include a pharmacy that refuses to fill a prescription of mifepristone followed by misoprostol to help manage complications from a miscarriage after a pregnancy loss.
That combination of drugs also is commonly used in medication abortions.
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Simple - don’t carry the drugs in stock.
Baby killing is a common fetish among the Left for whom nothing of the old extreme Left is extreme to them anymore.
More evidence that pharmacies federal programs such as Medicare and Medicaid need to be terminated promptly and completely.
Easily ignored. I hope most sane, ethical pharmacists give PedoJoe the finger.
I think pharmacists are supposed to source requested drugs, though.
The hospiyal “in case of the life of the mother” is really a sham. These organizations bill cases of ectopic pregnancy not as abortions but life saving procedures because there is no way a feotus can survive
Explain where the Biden Administration gets the constitutional or legislative power to do this. How can they even be taken seriously when they don’t even know what a woman is. Well, that’s not completely true. Biden had to nominate a low-IQ negro woman to the Supreme Court that doesn’t know what a woman is.
If only Jo Jo’s mom had terminated him.
Hey Pedo Peter Brandon- pharmacists have to follow the mandates as required by their State Board of Pharmacy under which they are licensed…. There is no federal pharmacist license.
“The agency noted that discrimination against people based on their pregnancy or related conditions would be a form of sex discrimination. “
How can there be sex discrimination if men can be pregnant too?
Is it the Federal Government’s position that men can’t be pregnant?
If so, then is the Federal Government transphobic?
Is the Federal Government being violent toward the trans?
Asking for a Berkley professor.
“The agency noted that discrimination against people based on their pregnancy...”
You would think that at some point women would become fed up with this madness.
Glad they said this about Ivermectin when pharmacies were refusing to fill valid prescriptions. We won’t let you try to save your life, but we will make sure you have all the drugs you need to kill your unborn baby.
Good point!
No, they’re not. Independents I’ve worked with routinely turn customers away if the product is expensive, or they’re not making enough or losing money on the script. There’s no law in Michigan that says you are obligated to service a customer.
We’re sorry ma’am but we sold our last baby killing drug to a man who was here before you. He didn’t want to become pregnant. First come, first served.
“We won’t let you try to save your life, but...”
Maybe you could pose a Star Trek-like logical conundrum to get past these bots:
It’s not a baby, it’s a parasite. Ivermectin please!
One pharmacist to another: she is taking another medication that makes this one deadly.
But you know the rules. We can’t discriminate.
More grandstanding.
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