Morning After Pill Pharmacist Debate.
So in the NC state house right now sits a bill that would allow pharmacist who oppose abortion to refuse to fill those perscriptions. They call it the "Conscience Claus". They are actually debating this. What?
Pharmacist are the right hand of practitioners, practitioner says "give the patient this pill" you'd better good and well do it. I can't believe there is any debate here. Doctors don't get to pick and choose they have a legal responsibility. But some idiot is going to allow Pharmacist to choose.
(I can almost hear the pro-lifer's and pro-choicer's taking sides as I write this.)
Both sides can go strait to heck holding hands. This has nothing to do with babies living or deceased. This has everything to do with discrimination. Let me say it again, with emphasis, discrimination.
The argument used to support it is "their moral or religious objection". This is my favorite. This kicks ass. It makes me want to go out and become a Pharmacist so I can refuse to fill any perscription to anyone who isn't Irish. That would be cool.
"Well, Mr. McCallahoon, I have your heart pills right here, but I'm afraid I can't give them to you because they we perscribed by a Dr. Putincamalliamalayison and that isn't an Irish name. You see I believe that the Irish are the perfect people and everyone else is morally inferior and unworthy. Infact I myself refuse to take any pain medications because my mother is half english."
It would be my right. Its my moral objection. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
What a great piece of legislation we have here. Racist, sexist, any -ist, or -ism you can think of gets a free ticket to control the lives of people they disapprove of for whatever reason they choose, moral or religious. Screw the babies, we're just using that as a starting place to screw the entire nation! Yippi-yi-yo-yi-ay!
ATTENTION MORALLY OBJECTIONABLE PHARMACIST. If you can't fill the perscription, don't be a pharmacist. It is as simple as that. Its not like you were drafted into "Pill Corps.".
I can't even believe I am having to blog about this....
Comments
Totally in agreement with you. When you choose your job, you choose all aspects of it or look for something else.
If you want to be a pharmacist in spite of having objections to following a doctor's orders for his female patients, then open your own damn pharmacy and make sure you post your policy where people like me will see it and know to boycott. But if you work for Big-Name pharmacy, then your first priority is serving your customers and filling the prescription.
I chose to teach in a Catholic school, even though I'm not very religious at all and have little patience with the evangelical set. I do my job, which is to teach young kids some Spanish, and smile politely when the prayers happen.
Posted by: Shannon | April 26, 2005 6:59 PM
I'm in complete disagreement. I think a better solution would be: if a certain pharmacist refuses to fill your prescription, take your business elsewhere. Don't force him/her to do something against his/her will.
Posted by: Rusty Sheridan | May 2, 2005 9:23 PM
The slope, she is slippery.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5381763.html
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
*thud*
Ouch!
Posted by: woody | May 3, 2005 3:18 PM
I am a pharmacist, and to this point I have not refused to fill a presciption for a morning after pill. I have refused to fill other prescriptions based on patient safety. I cannot fill a prescription for a patient if I know that it will do them harm, regardless of what the doctor says. I have an independent responsibilty to the health of the patient. The issue therefore is with life and where it begins. If I believe that life begins at conception, then an abortifacient medicine is counter to my job of protecting the public health. I would never fill a prescription that knowingly would kill a person. I work for a "big name" pharmacy and our policy is that if I choose to not fill the prescription based on moral objections, then I must call a manager and they will find a pharmacist that will fill the prescription.
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