I thought we all here hated conscientious objectors joining the military then trying to get out of hazardous duty based on their beliefs. This is the same thing.
Here's a hint: If you can't do the job, then don't take the job.
Hardly. We don't agree with military conscientious objectors. See the difference?
I don't know how to tell you this, but people in their
professional lives have to make their own decisions about
how they will practice. If they choose one way,they know
consequences will follow.
Some lawyers don't take rapist, or "mob" cases, some doctors
don't do elective "medicare" cases, some newspapers don't
report all the news, some restaurants don't serve Hungarian
goulash...you get my drift.
A pharmacist, doesn't have any obligation to fill any prescription
just cause someone has a physicians note. In fact, it is
the pharmacists obligation to not fill a prescription if in
their professional opinion, that prescription can cause undo harm.
So these pharmacists are acting on their belief that these
prescriptions cause harm, or death and cannot with good
conscience fill them. Yes, many of them will be fired, or
resign, but you cannot make them do what they truly believe
is wrong.
P.S. professional people define their work, and your comment that if
people can't do the job, they ought to not take it is
ludicrous. The people themselves decide what their "work"
is. There is plenty of work that a pharmacist can do without
having to dispense chemicals/biological products whose effect
is something they will not allow.