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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"Trying to be cute" is for college sophomores.
It nothing more than you are doing.
Whatever.
KingNo155,Are you on the right forum?
LOL , The great defender of the races has nothing to way but whatever?
I do, but not to you.
Check your spelling.
This is between me and Sinkspur and we wil resolve it.
lol, got me there. Score one for Sink.
May I freep mail you I have some things I'd like to debate with you but the forums not the proper place.
You're not going to ask me for my phone number, are you?
Huh?
KingNo155,Oh my big Gossh,sorry.
We all want to call you ,give it here and give it now:)
Please quote me the passage in the U.S. Constitution which forbids PRIVATE CITIZENS from discriminating based on race or any other characteristic.
I don't think it's up to the pharmacist to pass the customer on. The customer is in a free market and can, and should, think for herself.
Personally, I always get annoyed when a doctor writes a prescription for a particular pharmacy or has his nurse call it in. Call me paranoid, but I always think the doctor has something going with the pharmacy.
In some states (Texas was mentioned) it seems he is compelled to do it...
IMO he should be compelled everywhere...
It isn't for him to judge what is or isn't allowed...
And this isn't the point at all... I don't have a problem with contraception or abortion... I don't care what other believe about it, their beliefs, not mine... I don't see why they should try to impose their little fairy tales beliefs on me...
To be a pharmacist, you need a state license. This should come with restrictions. Compelling the pharmacist to fill prescriptions should be one (there is a difference with over the counter medications like condoms... You need a pharmacist for the prescription)
Then go to the STATE owned PHARMACY. By your logic all doctors should be mandated to provide abortion on demand. After all they are licensed by the state.
The pharmacist has the right to choose what he sells in his pharmacy. It is a private business.
This should be a condition of the license... All doctors shouldn't be obliged to perform abortions, only some (obgyns for instance)...
Again, I believe that a pharmacist trying to impose his fake morals on others isn't the way to go.... And given the availability of pharmacy on line, he'll go bankrupt!
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