The facts aren't the same, the principle is. It's a pharmacist's job to dispense prescriptions. Period. While I appreciate their concerns, it's not their job to force their beliefs on others.
Force? The store does not sell the pills. It's not the pharmacists job to shop for the customer. There was no life/death situation here for the customer. The customer was free to go elsewhere, or did the pharmacist tie the woman up to the security bar at Target's front door to keep her there until the pill would no longer work?
My father was a pharmacist. He was also a small business owner. He had every right to stock whatever medicines he wanted. And if a customer did not like his service or the service of his employees, they could go elsewhere. No big deal. I doubt Target would lose a lot of customers over this one pharmacist refusing to sell a rarely requested pill.
What is your occupation, if I may ask?
Go to a different pharmacist. How tough is that?
But, a Pharmacist cannot be FORCED to fill an order. If they think you're behaving questionably or that the order is questionable in relationship to you, for whatever reason, they can quite literally refuse to fill it.