What are your thoughts on pharmacists refusing to fill the morning after pill for religious reasons?
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I think they should be relieved of they duties and licenses revoked.
It's not their job to decide who can have what pills, that is up to the prescribing doctor. And, it's not their job to judge others, or to take away freedoms that this country has given.
I think they should do the "Godly" thing and go empty out the orphanages. If that happen to me, I might have a mind to do my morning sickness on their pharmaceutical counter!
If they work for themselves, they have the right to serve whomever they choose. If they work for a store like Walgreens, then they can still choose not to fill the prescription, but the store has the right to fire them as well.
its their job to fill it if thats perscription they have to fill it if they dont then someone else in that or another pharmacy should fill it
In our country it is allowable and acceptable. I guess it is freedom of religion. Pharmacists here who think that it is inappropriate to supply the morning after pill (for religious, medical or any other reason) simply do not do the extra little bit of training that would allow them to directly sell it to a patient. If the patient has a perscription from a doctor, the pharmacist is still able to choose not to dispense it (as they would not be likely to have it in stock anyway!), as with any other script for any other medication. The patient is also free to choose to go another business - which they can easily do except perhaps in very small towns.
I think if they own the practice then they have the right to refuse. Its not a life saving drug, its a life-destroying drug. They shouldn't be allowed to fill it even if they want to.
Thats is F*ucking gayy! I so sure they don't believe in sex but they can't fill the BCso then you get a abortion WTF is this world coming to as long as your paying who carrress!
Good for them. They will always refer you to another pharmacist who would do it for you.
I think they should get out of the business. Their job is not to render personal judgments on their customers, it is to dispense legally written prescriptions from doctors. If they wanted to let their religious beliefs be part of their job, they should have become ministers.
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Some pharmacists across the country are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills, saying that dispensing the medications violates their personal moral or religious beliefs.
The trend has opened a new front in the nation's battle over reproductive rights, sparking an intense debate over the competing rights of pharmacists to refuse to participate in something they consider repugnant and a woman's right to get medications her doctor has prescribed. It has also triggered pitched political battles in statehouses across the nation as politicians seek to pass laws either to protect pharmacists from being penalized -- or force them to carry out their duties.
A number of states have either passed laws or are considering laws that allow pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions, such as birth control and morning-after pills.
"This is a very big issue that's just beginning to surface," Which defends pharmacists. "More and more pharmacists are becoming aware of their right to conscientiously refuse to pass objectionable medications across the counter. We are on the very front edge of a wave that's going to break not too far down the line."
An increasing number of clashes are occurring in drugstores across the country. Pharmacists often risk dismissal or other disciplinary action to stand up for their beliefs, while shaken teenage girls and women desperately call their doctors, frequently late at night, after being turned away by sometimes-lecturing men and women in white coats.
"There are pharmacists who will only give birth control pills to a woman if she's married. There are pharmacists who mistakenly believe contraception is a form of abortion and refuse to prescribe it to anyone," which tracks reproductive issues. "There are even cases of pharmacists holding prescriptions hostage, where they won't even transfer it to another pharmacy when time is of the essence."
That is what happened to a lady and her husband, who panicked when the condom they were using broke. Their fear really spiked when the Walgreens pharmacy down the street from their home in Milwaukee refused to fill an emergency prescription for the morning-after pill.
"I couldn't believe it," who with her husband had long ago decided they could not afford a fifth child. "How can they make that decision for us? I was outraged. At the same time, I was sad that we had to do this. But I was scared. I didn't know what we were going to do."
Supporters of pharmacists' rights see the trend as a welcome expression of personal belief. Women's groups see it as a major threat to reproductive rights and one of the latest manifestations of the religious right's growing political reach -- this time into the neighborhood pharmacy.
"This is another indication of the current political atmosphere and climate,". "It's outrageous. It's sex discrimination. It prevents access to a basic form of health care for women. We're going back in time."
The issue could intensify further if the Food and Drug Administration approves the sale of the Plan B morning-after pill without a prescription -- a controversial step that would likely make pharmacists the primary gatekeeper.
The question of health care workers refusing to provide certain services first emerged among doctors, nurses and other health care workers over abortions. The trend began to spread to pharmacists with the approval of the morning-after pill and physician-assisted suicide in Oregon.
"Our group was founded with the idea of returning pharmacy to a healing-only profession. What's been going on is the use of medication to stop human life. That violates the ideal of the Hippocratic oath that medical practitioners should do no harm,"
No one knows exactly how often that is happening, but cases have been reported across the country. Advocates on both sides say the refusals appear to be spreading, often surfacing only in the rare instances when women file complaints.
Pharmacists are regulated by state laws and can face disciplinary action from licensing boards. But the only case that has gotten that far involves.
Narendra
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