Posted on 11/23/2004 7:36:40 PM PST by LouAvul
After Idalia and Jose Moran's son was born by C-section, Idalia Moran's doctor advised her not to get pregnant again for two to three years, and prescribed the pill.
But as CBS News correspondent Byron Pitts reports, when she went to the pharmacy, the cashier said, "You know what? I cannot refill them because the pharmacist says it's against his religion because it's abortion."
Moran told CBS she was stunned and ashamed.
"I felt really bad, because I thought maybe these are for abortion," Moran said. "I don't know."
Across the country, more and more pharmacists are refusing to fill prescriptions for religious reasons.
South Dakota, Arkansas and Mississippi even have refusal clauses on the books. And 13 other states are considering mixing medicine with morality.
At Lloyd's Pharmacy in Gray, La., Lloyd Duplantis believes in prayer.
"God bless the great state of Louisiana, the parish…In the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit…" Duplantis said in a makeshift prayer group in the middle of his store.
And he believes birth control is tantamount to abortion. So, he stocks his shelves accordingly.
"I don’t sell condoms. I don't sell foams. I don't sell creams," Duplantis said. "I don't sell anything to do with contraception."
He said, even if a woman who was the victim of incestuous rape walked in his door after having been prescribed the pill, he wouldn't change his policy.
"I would tell her that I can't prescribe this," Duplantis said.
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However, if the owner of a pharmacy stocks contraceptives, and one of his pharmacists refuses to sell them, he should pass the prescription to a pharmacist who will. That, or the refusing pharmacist should quit.
It certainly is his business, although it's rather strange to consider these forms of birth control abortion, since they work to PREVENT fertilization.
As a pharmacist I doubt that he can prescribe anything.
My sister got bullied into filling a prescription for some sort of abortion pill.
Great point. You might think that someone with a job that requires the precision that his does (or used to) would be more accurate with his choice of words.
And that is the crux, if it is HIS pharmacy, he is certainly free not to stock birth control pills.
However, if he works at a place that does stock these things, then he should keep his religon to himself and either sell the drugs, or find another job.
If I'm a baptist waiter working at a resturant/bar; is it fair for me to refuse to bring beer to guests? Is it fair for me to demand that someone else do their job, plus mine? If I am muslim, can I refuse to make your sausage pizza (which I would believe to be unclean)? If I am a devoute Christian, and crude language offends me; can I refuse to play 'rap' music at the nightclub?
When you accept a job, you agree to provide the services required for a paycheck. Now, if the paychecks bounce, you are free to pursue legal recourses, and cease working. However, if the paychecks are good, and you refuse to service the customer; you can expect to be fired.
I agree. A man's business should be his to run as he sees fit, but the ACLU lawyers love to tell business owners how to run their businesses.
Think Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's. Think about sit-ins in restaurants that were white only. Think about activist jurists who love to "tinker" with the Constitution.
I'd be surprised if the ACLU wasn't all over these pharmacies ASAP.
Not if you work at Dominos. Those pellets sure ain't any kind of sausage we know and love.
Do you think an owner should be allowed to decide what race is served at his restaurant?
You approve of "whites-only" establishments? How about blacks in the back of the bus?
Well, that is reaching a bit. her civil rights have been violated.
Sorry.
My daughter, a pharmacy tech, bullied her pharmacist into not carrying the the drug.
My daughter, a pharmacy tech, bullied her pharmacist into not carrying the the drug.
Actually, the pharmacist is right. Any pill that contains prostaglandin (and almost all do) acts to prevent implantation of the "products of conception" (read "baby" in the red states).
Ping for life.
All Oral Contraceptives work by three methods. By:
1. Preventing Ovulation
2. Preventing fertilization (by inhibiting movement of the sperm to the fallopian tube.
3. By preventing an embryo from implanting into the uterus.
#3 is effectively a chemical abortion.
A better question is do you two think that government has the right to tell those who own their own businesses how to run those businesses?
That's exactly what the ACLU will be filing in its briefs against these pharmacies.
You can't have it both ways. Either the government can tell you how to run a business or it can't. If both of you say that government is in control of business decisions that affect social policy then you're both on a slippery slope.
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