Because that's what happens (or should happen) in the situations you tried to class this one with
Pharmacists refuse to fill various presciptions every day for many different reasons: drug interactions, allergies, wrong doses, forgery, legal parameters,This is a legal prescription, not in question for medical reasons - the situation is different
This is a legal prescription, not in question for medical reasons - the situation is different
I am going to give you a little case to contemplate and help illustrate my position:
You are a pharmacist working on a Saturday morning. A woman comes in with a prescription for a arthritis/pain med that is known to have abortifacient properties (there is such a drug). You note that she is of childbearing age and recently got a prescription for prenatal vitamins.
Choice 1: fill prescription without question because you feel that as a pharmacist, it is your job to fill every legal prescription and not send business away from your employer, which you might be doing if you refuse to fill it. Outcome A: nothing happens. Good for you, you were lucky this time. Outcome B: you lose your job, license and everything you own due to being sued to kingdom come by the patient who has a miscarriage.
Choice 2 (correct choice): you decline/refuse to fill the prescription- yes, a legal prescription that a doctor has written and the patient obviously wants. Outcome A: you are a hero! The patient thanks you profusely for catching this. Outcome B: patient becomes irate, saying it is none of your business, the doctor knows what he/she is doing. They are in pain and refuse to wait until Monday until you can get a hold of the doctor. In addition, they say that the pregnancy is unwanted, so they don't care about the abortifacient side effect. Now what do you do? If you cave and fill it, please see OUtcome B of decision 1 (regardless of what they say in the heat of the moment, they can still come back and sue you and deny saying it in the first place). If you still refuse to fill it, why? Do you have the right/duty to refuse to fill it or are you meddling in the doctor/patient relationship and inserting your own personal judgments? Why or why not? After you get this far and answer those questions, we can continue the discussion and bring it to its logical conclusion, which I hope you can see by now.