Should pharmacists have the right to refuse to sell or fill prescriptions for emergency contraceptives?
60 Comments
yn said:
NO
Dave said:
No they should not be able to refuse to fill the r/x, plan b stops it before it becomes a fetus, should we be able to come into their houses and make decisions that could change their lifes?
Their job is to fill r/x not to judge or make decisions for other peoples futures.
If you think about it.... alot of pharmacies sale alcohol too, should they be able to refuse the puchase because they don't drink alcohol?
I think they should just do their job, and give people r/x that needed, they are not GOD they are there to serve the customers.
pf said:
Absolutely NOT! Dispensing legal drugs is their job and their responsibility and their personal opinions have no place in their workplace. If they don't like it, they should find another line of work.
Bob said:
NO! They should not refuse to fill any legal prescription. They should keep their personal feelings out of the job. Their license is to deliver legally prescribed medicne, not matter what that is. If they can't do that they should find another occupation.
Dianne said:
NO! Their job is to fill any legal prescriptions presented to them. Their personal opions have no place in their workplace. If it does, they need to find another type of employment!
Jill said:
NO No NO. RX are between the patient and the Doctor!!!! A pharmicist has no right to interfere by refusing to fill the RX. If there ever was an example of a future "slippery slope" this is it!! What would be the next RX some pharmacist would decide it is against his religion!!! AIDS drugs, cough syrup with alcohol, etc. etc.
Robert Anderson MD said:
Pharmacists should absolutely not have the right to withhold legally available pharmaceuticals from the public.
It is wholly ironic that the same slice of the population which rails against abortion wants to withhold an agent that prevents pregnancy and thus reduces the liklihood of choosing abortion. These people are extremist in their worldview, devoid of reason and invested only in religious fervor.
Grace said:
YES. Pharmacists should absolutely be able to refuse to fill any prescription that they feel goes against their personal philosophy of life.
TW said:
A definate NO. It is absolutely NOT their decision.
If they have a problem filling legal prescriptions, then they should find another line of work. I do not want my doctor being second-guessed by a pharmacist.
J. R. Nakken said:
Let's not EVEN make this about aborttion!
We, the people, have to stop legislating small business. We have to stop legislating conscience.
There's a pharmacy on every corner, for gosh sakes. If we are going to legislate every thing with which we disagree, someday soon we will be
governed only by conglomerates and the conscienceless. J. R. Nakken
linda said:
YES! YES! YES!
As civilized people,we must always guestion ourselves and our motives.What are we living for,God or our pleasures?If we don't ask this,we are doomed as a culture.Please don't force everyone into the same mold and the same disordered way of thinking!
Arturo Salazar said:
If anyone has any doubt about the “right doing” here, just read the PHARMACIST CODE OF ETHICS, established to guide pharmacists in relationships with patients, health professionals, and society. We as Humanity have come with codes of conduct (laws for example) because without them the world would be chaos and people would be able to do whatever they wanted with justifiable reasons in their minds, including hurting or even kill one another, maybe that’s why we have the Bill of Rights and the twenty-six amendments.
For example:
CODE OF ETHICS
III. A pharmacist respects the autonomy and dignity of each patient.
A pharmacist promotes the right of self-determination and recognizes individual self-worth by encouraging patients to participate in decisions about their health. A pharmacist communicates with patients in terms that are understandable. In all cases, a pharmacist respects personal and cultural differences among patients.
VII. A pharmacist serves individual, community, and societal needs.
The primary obligation of a pharmacist is to individual patients. However, the obligations of a pharmacist may at times extend beyond the individual to the community and society. In these situations, the pharmacist recognizes the responsibilities that accompany these obligations and acts accordingly.
* adopted by the membership of the American Pharmacists Association October 27, 1994.
OATH OF A PHARMACIST
I will consider the welfare of humanity and relief of human suffering my primary concerns.
There are legitimate ways to present your values to society, but self-righteous imposition of the pharmacist’s values on their patients is not one of them, if you are concern about the direction that sexual education has taken in this country, GET INVOLVED and lets FIX IT.
Tracy said:
I am so tired of the only option anymore in conducting your life is that of agreeing with those that feel that whatever makes them feel good at the moment is the way we all have to live. Pharmacists should be able to make moral decisions just as anyone else is able. Not all doctors will prescribe the morning after pill and I don't hear an outcry about that. There are many pharmacies to choose from and go somewhere else if you need to make immediate choices because you couldn't control yourself the night before.
Terry Holland said:
Pharmacists should have no more rights to refuse to dispense legally prescibed drugs, than any other employee has to refuse to do the job for which they were hired. If these individuals find that their job description goes against their personal beliefs, then THEY should be the ones to remove themselves from the loop. The idea that one persons freedom of choice should be controled by the beliefs or ideals of another person, or group, is ludacris. This country was founded as a means to escape control and persicution from groups and governments who wanted to decide how people should live.
es said:
what about places that only sell kosher foods? maybe they should be required to sell other products and now how bout this new gas station back east that advertises selling only terror free gas?
if a pharmacy is privatly owned why should they be required to sell something they dont want to. do your shopping before hand that way if something gets to throbbing you will be ready for it.
Randy Brown said:
I think pharmacists should have that right to refuse certain drugs, but here's why: Like any other business, they choose what their inventory is. They shouldn't be forced to stock something on their shelves against their will. Let them go out of business because of their ignorance. Women should have the right to purchase this drug as much as they want, just as pharmacies should have the right to stock that drug or not. The government needs to quit getting involved in everyone's life. There's more important things to worry about such as poverty, crime, and education. If we worked on those problems, we wouldnt have problems arise such as plan B isssues. Grow up, everyone!
Kenneth Crandall said:
Pharmacists should not second guess the need for any perscription. They are part of the medical suppy team and as professionals in that team they should not be allowed to let personnal beliefs, no matter how deeply held, interupt the delivery of perscriptions.
They do not have knowledge relative to the need for the perscriptions and therefore can not know the consequences of failure to deliver the perscriptions. They must accomplish their professional duty to accurately deliver the perscriptions of their customers.
Edie said:
NO!!!!!!!! People need to take responsebiliy for there action. They need to grow.
Mark said:
Pharmacist should have a choice just like Doctors have a choice of doing abortions or not in there practice.
Anonymous said:
If you don't give them the contraceptive, you'll be paying for the welfare of the kid. Thankfully Pharmacists aren't usually "christians".
Anonymous said:
In this land of "freedom of choice", what about the pharmacists' freedom of choice to follow their conscience. It can't be all one way!!!
Absolutely NOT!!! What would be next? Refusal to sell birth control period? Refusal to sell drugs for ailments that the pharmacist believes is caused by sin or neglect? Would a pharmacist refuse to sell diabetes or haert medications because he/she believed the patient brought the illness upon him/herself? Refusal to sell pain medications because the patient might become addicted? It is a slippery slope, and pharmacists and doctors are not allowed to let their religious or personal beliefs to get in the way of providing legally prescribed medications to the public. If a person is unable to do their job in a proper manner due to their religious beliefs, then they need to persue a religious career and leave the important stuff to someone who is capable of putting their feelings aside to provide for the common good.
Saera said:
Pharmacists can make moral decisions like everyone else. If their moral decision is to not dispence medications to individuals as dictated by a doctor, they can make the Moral Decision to Not be a Pharmacist. If you cannot do your job, its time to accept responsibility for your poor carreer choice and move on. It is not a pharmacists duty to judge or condemn or with hold doctor prescribed medications from the people.
And on a side note, in some places, there are pharmacies every other block. In smaller towns, we dont. The nearest pharmacy is 3 miles away, and the next one, is 20-30 miles after that, and then 40+ miles from that one. For anyone who does not have a car and plenty of gas, or all day to take the bus, or plenty of cash to get a taxi way out here to drive them around, having your pharmacy say no, i'm not giving you that Rx can really cause issues.
Karen Downing said:
Absolutely not. If you don't want to do the job you were hired for---*dispensing* prescriptions, not passing judgements about their fitness for a given situation---then find another job. Medical workers who find abortions repugnant do not apply for work in facilities that may perform abortions. Pharmacists who have a problem with birth control---whether it is used before or after intercourse---have no business "serving" the public. That is not service, it's hypocrisy.
Can you imagine a pharmacist refusing to dispense weight-loss drugs to an obese person because he or she thinks the customer "should have used more self-restraint at dinner the night before?" Such a thing would be ludicrous.
This issue is not about ethics or belief systems, it's about being qualified to do a job. If you can't stand the heat, get the hell out of the kitchen.
John said:
Absolutely NOT!!! The pharmacists' job is to dispense legally prescribed medication PERIOD. If they feel that they can start making judgement calls based on their personal beliefs then they should not be working in a pharmacy. These narrow minded extremist are a danger to our society and they should be immediately fired from their position and then they can seek new employment doing something else that won't infringe upon MY right to make choices for myself
THT said:
Yes, Pharmacist should be able to refuse to fill a prescription for the morning after pill. Unprotected sex isn't an illness, its a choice.
Absoloutly not. They have no right to force thier views on customers. They are a business and as such should conduct them selves in a business like manner. That is like them saying if you are a Catholic or a Jewish person or a person not of their religon they have the right to refuse them service. That is personal not business. Why don't these people worry about their OWN morals and not inflect them on others.
es said:
this is just plain stupid we are even talking about this. emergency contraceprives? just incase some emergency sex breaks out you want to make it as conveniant as possible to get some emergency.....
dont forget to pick up a pack of smokes so you can have one of those afterwards. i know!! next time just call 911 and maybe they can send somebody over!! here is a suggestion, take this bunch of crap and shove it up your other opening!!
rob said:
why not spay and neuter people then the phamacists won't have to make a morale choice. Theses people do have the right to dispense/not dispense the pill. They are not holding back on penecillan or any life saving drug, it is a whoops I drank too much at the bar and had sex with someone i don't know. wahh grow up. This is birth control, buy a rubber if you want to have sex and get a real prescription filled at your pharmacy of choice. obviously if you don't like your pharmacy because of their beliefs, there are alot out there who will take your prescription and money. And to annonymous who thinks that pharmacists are not christians, is a moron who will likely burn for enernity.
Dennis said:
It isn't as easy as yes or no to me. No, because in most job's, a person would lose their job for saying, 'I'm not going to do that part of my job because I don't agree with it.' On the other hand yes, because people need to learn a bit more self control.(but by the time it's at the pharmacist it's too late for that.) Think ahead, if you don't want to face the consequences, don't do it. Then again, it's not always as simple as two people getting all "hot and heavy".
I'm on the boat of, get'em "fixed" if they want to disregaurd consequences. But then there would probably be a rise in STD's because they woud think, 'who need's protection now that we can't have children.
The over all problem is, we are a selfish society that is raised to believe that the pursuit of happiness mean's avoiding consequences. "who need's consequence's when you can just take a pill.?" I have to go get my viagra now. That is a joke to point out the ignorence of where the problem actually starts.
Adam said:
It is NOT the pharmacists job to decide when and what medications are to be prescribed to a patient. If a pharmacist were to begin refusing a prescriptions that I write, I would make sure to let all of my patients know; thus, avoiding that business. I can't pick and choose my patients, whey should a pharmacist.
Dan said:
So all of you think that a pharmacist should be able to decide whether or not to dispense the "Morning After" pill need to think about this. Women are RAPED daily in this country. What about them. They don't always have the option of driving around to the next pharmacy that is 30+ miles away. Don't let someone else decide what choices you are able to make for your own well being.
joahnna huft said:
DO WE HAVE THE CHOISE To Pay THere RIDICULOus PrIcEs??????????......NO?....TheN they should shut up and give me the F****** PILLS!!!!!!!!!!
johanna huft said:
CHOICE!!!!!!.......my bad....B}
John said:
If the pharmacists refuses to sell the pill they should have to pay child support for all the unwanted children
Lisa said:
No, it is their job to fill prescriptions. Their beliefs should not interfer with a patients prescriptio. At least the person getting the "morning after pill" is taking precautions to prevent an unwanted pregnancy.
johanna huft said:
If the pharmacists are able to tell us that the contraceptive of our choosing is immoral...I say the prices that they charge for the medication that we buy everyday is far more immoral than preventing a crack baby from being born.....pharmacies are becoming antiquated....and this crap just hastens there extinction......
Ed said:
Even though I favor a pro-choice stance... the fact of the matter is, most of these folks really don't understand the world of Pharmacy.
First, pharmacists are not just "pill" pushers. In general, pharmacists know more about prescription drugs than physicians. For God sakes, their study is in Pharmacology...
Second Guessed?"
Do you know that pharmacist tremendously reduce the amount of malpractice during pharmaceutical delivery!
Second, most pharmacies are owned by pharmacists. You think you can open a CVS or Walgreen franchise? To my knowledge, they only allow pharmacists to open and own one. If you own the store, you should dictate what you sell.
Third, pharmacists definately have a say in what they dispense! Fortunately, this method is in place... and it works!
They can deny a prescription, if they suspect if the prescription is in error (doctor mistake or suspect fake prescription), or if a patient may appear to be addicted to a drug, etc.
Lastly, I understand that you believe they are infringing their self-righteous ideas on you. But really if you think about it, you are infringing on theirs. They are not infringing on your right to receive plan b.
Similar to a lawyer refusing to defend you. That does not mean he is infringing your right to be represented in a court of law. A ob/gyn has every right to refuse an abortion. A pharmacist should have the same rights.
In short, there are probably better ways to handle this mess.
If you do not like your physician, go to another one!
If you do not like your pharmacist,
go find another one.
Again, I am pro-choice, and we should not impose our morales on pharmacists, doctors or anyone else.
NO
No they should not be able to refuse to fill the r/x, plan b stops it before it becomes a fetus, should we be able to come into their houses and make decisions that could change their lifes?
Their job is to fill r/x not to judge or make decisions for other peoples futures.
If you think about it.... alot of pharmacies sale alcohol too, should they be able to refuse the puchase because they don't drink alcohol?
I think they should just do their job, and give people r/x that needed, they are not GOD they are there to serve the customers.
Absolutely NOT! Dispensing legal drugs is their job and their responsibility and their personal opinions have no place in their workplace. If they don't like it, they should find another line of work.
NO! They should not refuse to fill any legal prescription. They should keep their personal feelings out of the job. Their license is to deliver legally prescribed medicne, not matter what that is. If they can't do that they should find another occupation.
NO! Their job is to fill any legal prescriptions presented to them. Their personal opions have no place in their workplace. If it does, they need to find another type of employment!
NO No NO. RX are between the patient and the Doctor!!!! A pharmicist has no right to interfere by refusing to fill the RX. If there ever was an example of a future "slippery slope" this is it!! What would be the next RX some pharmacist would decide it is against his religion!!! AIDS drugs, cough syrup with alcohol, etc. etc.
Pharmacists should absolutely not have the right to withhold legally available pharmaceuticals from the public.
It is wholly ironic that the same slice of the population which rails against abortion wants to withhold an agent that prevents pregnancy and thus reduces the liklihood of choosing abortion. These people are extremist in their worldview, devoid of reason and invested only in religious fervor.
YES. Pharmacists should absolutely be able to refuse to fill any prescription that they feel goes against their personal philosophy of life.
A definate NO. It is absolutely NOT their decision.
If they have a problem filling legal prescriptions, then they should find another line of work. I do not want my doctor being second-guessed by a pharmacist.
Let's not EVEN make this about aborttion!
We, the people, have to stop legislating small business. We have to stop legislating conscience.
There's a pharmacy on every corner, for gosh sakes. If we are going to legislate every thing with which we disagree, someday soon we will be
governed only by conglomerates and the conscienceless. J. R. Nakken
YES! YES! YES!
As civilized people,we must always guestion ourselves and our motives.What are we living for,God or our pleasures?If we don't ask this,we are doomed as a culture.Please don't force everyone into the same mold and the same disordered way of thinking!
If anyone has any doubt about the “right doing” here, just read the PHARMACIST CODE OF ETHICS, established to guide pharmacists in relationships with patients, health professionals, and society. We as Humanity have come with codes of conduct (laws for example) because without them the world would be chaos and people would be able to do whatever they wanted with justifiable reasons in their minds, including hurting or even kill one another, maybe that’s why we have the Bill of Rights and the twenty-six amendments.
For example:
CODE OF ETHICS
III. A pharmacist respects the autonomy and dignity of each patient.
A pharmacist promotes the right of self-determination and recognizes individual self-worth by encouraging patients to participate in decisions about their health. A pharmacist communicates with patients in terms that are understandable. In all cases, a pharmacist respects personal and cultural differences among patients.
VII. A pharmacist serves individual, community, and societal needs.
The primary obligation of a pharmacist is to individual patients. However, the obligations of a pharmacist may at times extend beyond the individual to the community and society. In these situations, the pharmacist recognizes the responsibilities that accompany these obligations and acts accordingly.
* adopted by the membership of the American Pharmacists Association October 27, 1994.
OATH OF A PHARMACIST
I will consider the welfare of humanity and relief of human suffering my primary concerns.
There are legitimate ways to present your values to society, but self-righteous imposition of the pharmacist’s values on their patients is not one of them, if you are concern about the direction that sexual education has taken in this country, GET INVOLVED and lets FIX IT.
I am so tired of the only option anymore in conducting your life is that of agreeing with those that feel that whatever makes them feel good at the moment is the way we all have to live. Pharmacists should be able to make moral decisions just as anyone else is able. Not all doctors will prescribe the morning after pill and I don't hear an outcry about that. There are many pharmacies to choose from and go somewhere else if you need to make immediate choices because you couldn't control yourself the night before.
Pharmacists should have no more rights to refuse to dispense legally prescibed drugs, than any other employee has to refuse to do the job for which they were hired. If these individuals find that their job description goes against their personal beliefs, then THEY should be the ones to remove themselves from the loop. The idea that one persons freedom of choice should be controled by the beliefs or ideals of another person, or group, is ludacris. This country was founded as a means to escape control and persicution from groups and governments who wanted to decide how people should live.
what about places that only sell kosher foods? maybe they should be required to sell other products and now how bout this new gas station back east that advertises selling only terror free gas?
if a pharmacy is privatly owned why should they be required to sell something they dont want to. do your shopping before hand that way if something gets to throbbing you will be ready for it.
I think pharmacists should have that right to refuse certain drugs, but here's why: Like any other business, they choose what their inventory is. They shouldn't be forced to stock something on their shelves against their will. Let them go out of business because of their ignorance. Women should have the right to purchase this drug as much as they want, just as pharmacies should have the right to stock that drug or not. The government needs to quit getting involved in everyone's life. There's more important things to worry about such as poverty, crime, and education. If we worked on those problems, we wouldnt have problems arise such as plan B isssues. Grow up, everyone!
Pharmacists should not second guess the need for any perscription. They are part of the medical suppy team and as professionals in that team they should not be allowed to let personnal beliefs, no matter how deeply held, interupt the delivery of perscriptions.
They do not have knowledge relative to the need for the perscriptions and therefore can not know the consequences of failure to deliver the perscriptions. They must accomplish their professional duty to accurately deliver the perscriptions of their customers.
NO!!!!!!!! People need to take responsebiliy for there action. They need to grow.
Pharmacist should have a choice just like Doctors have a choice of doing abortions or not in there practice.
If you don't give them the contraceptive, you'll be paying for the welfare of the kid. Thankfully Pharmacists aren't usually "christians".
In this land of "freedom of choice", what about the pharmacists' freedom of choice to follow their conscience. It can't be all one way!!!
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Absolutely NOT!!! What would be next? Refusal to sell birth control period? Refusal to sell drugs for ailments that the pharmacist believes is caused by sin or neglect? Would a pharmacist refuse to sell diabetes or haert medications because he/she believed the patient brought the illness upon him/herself? Refusal to sell pain medications because the patient might become addicted? It is a slippery slope, and pharmacists and doctors are not allowed to let their religious or personal beliefs to get in the way of providing legally prescribed medications to the public. If a person is unable to do their job in a proper manner due to their religious beliefs, then they need to persue a religious career and leave the important stuff to someone who is capable of putting their feelings aside to provide for the common good.
Pharmacists can make moral decisions like everyone else. If their moral decision is to not dispence medications to individuals as dictated by a doctor, they can make the Moral Decision to Not be a Pharmacist. If you cannot do your job, its time to accept responsibility for your poor carreer choice and move on. It is not a pharmacists duty to judge or condemn or with hold doctor prescribed medications from the people.
And on a side note, in some places, there are pharmacies every other block. In smaller towns, we dont. The nearest pharmacy is 3 miles away, and the next one, is 20-30 miles after that, and then 40+ miles from that one. For anyone who does not have a car and plenty of gas, or all day to take the bus, or plenty of cash to get a taxi way out here to drive them around, having your pharmacy say no, i'm not giving you that Rx can really cause issues.
Absolutely not. If you don't want to do the job you were hired for---*dispensing* prescriptions, not passing judgements about their fitness for a given situation---then find another job. Medical workers who find abortions repugnant do not apply for work in facilities that may perform abortions. Pharmacists who have a problem with birth control---whether it is used before or after intercourse---have no business "serving" the public. That is not service, it's hypocrisy.
Can you imagine a pharmacist refusing to dispense weight-loss drugs to an obese person because he or she thinks the customer "should have used more self-restraint at dinner the night before?" Such a thing would be ludicrous.
This issue is not about ethics or belief systems, it's about being qualified to do a job. If you can't stand the heat, get the hell out of the kitchen.
Absolutely NOT!!! The pharmacists' job is to dispense legally prescribed medication PERIOD. If they feel that they can start making judgement calls based on their personal beliefs then they should not be working in a pharmacy. These narrow minded extremist are a danger to our society and they should be immediately fired from their position and then they can seek new employment doing something else that won't infringe upon MY right to make choices for myself
Yes, Pharmacist should be able to refuse to fill a prescription for the morning after pill. Unprotected sex isn't an illness, its a choice.
Absoloutly not. They have no right to force thier views on customers. They are a business and as such should conduct them selves in a business like manner. That is like them saying if you are a Catholic or a Jewish person or a person not of their religon they have the right to refuse them service. That is personal not business. Why don't these people worry about their OWN morals and not inflect them on others.
this is just plain stupid we are even talking about this. emergency contraceprives? just incase some emergency sex breaks out you want to make it as conveniant as possible to get some emergency.....
dont forget to pick up a pack of smokes so you can have one of those afterwards. i know!! next time just call 911 and maybe they can send somebody over!! here is a suggestion, take this bunch of crap and shove it up your other opening!!
why not spay and neuter people then the phamacists won't have to make a morale choice. Theses people do have the right to dispense/not dispense the pill. They are not holding back on penecillan or any life saving drug, it is a whoops I drank too much at the bar and had sex with someone i don't know. wahh grow up. This is birth control, buy a rubber if you want to have sex and get a real prescription filled at your pharmacy of choice. obviously if you don't like your pharmacy because of their beliefs, there are alot out there who will take your prescription and money. And to annonymous who thinks that pharmacists are not christians, is a moron who will likely burn for enernity.
It isn't as easy as yes or no to me. No, because in most job's, a person would lose their job for saying, 'I'm not going to do that part of my job because I don't agree with it.' On the other hand yes, because people need to learn a bit more self control.(but by the time it's at the pharmacist it's too late for that.) Think ahead, if you don't want to face the consequences, don't do it. Then again, it's not always as simple as two people getting all "hot and heavy".
I'm on the boat of, get'em "fixed" if they want to disregaurd consequences. But then there would probably be a rise in STD's because they woud think, 'who need's protection now that we can't have children.
The over all problem is, we are a selfish society that is raised to believe that the pursuit of happiness mean's avoiding consequences. "who need's consequence's when you can just take a pill.?" I have to go get my viagra now. That is a joke to point out the ignorence of where the problem actually starts.
It is NOT the pharmacists job to decide when and what medications are to be prescribed to a patient. If a pharmacist were to begin refusing a prescriptions that I write, I would make sure to let all of my patients know; thus, avoiding that business. I can't pick and choose my patients, whey should a pharmacist.
So all of you think that a pharmacist should be able to decide whether or not to dispense the "Morning After" pill need to think about this. Women are RAPED daily in this country. What about them. They don't always have the option of driving around to the next pharmacy that is 30+ miles away. Don't let someone else decide what choices you are able to make for your own well being.
DO WE HAVE THE CHOISE To Pay THere RIDICULOus PrIcEs??????????......NO?....TheN they should shut up and give me the F****** PILLS!!!!!!!!!!
CHOICE!!!!!!.......my bad....B}
If the pharmacists refuses to sell the pill they should have to pay child support for all the unwanted children
No, it is their job to fill prescriptions. Their beliefs should not interfer with a patients prescriptio. At least the person getting the "morning after pill" is taking precautions to prevent an unwanted pregnancy.
If the pharmacists are able to tell us that the contraceptive of our choosing is immoral...I say the prices that they charge for the medication that we buy everyday is far more immoral than preventing a crack baby from being born.....pharmacies are becoming antiquated....and this crap just hastens there extinction......
Even though I favor a pro-choice stance... the fact of the matter is, most of these folks really don't understand the world of Pharmacy.
First, pharmacists are not just "pill" pushers. In general, pharmacists know more about prescription drugs than physicians. For God sakes, their study is in Pharmacology...
Second Guessed?"
Do you know that pharmacist tremendously reduce the amount of malpractice during pharmaceutical delivery!
Second, most pharmacies are owned by pharmacists. You think you can open a CVS or Walgreen franchise? To my knowledge, they only allow pharmacists to open and own one. If you own the store, you should dictate what you sell.
Third, pharmacists definately have a say in what they dispense! Fortunately, this method is in place... and it works!
They can deny a prescription, if they suspect if the prescription is in error (doctor mistake or suspect fake prescription), or if a patient may appear to be addicted to a drug, etc.
Lastly, I understand that you believe they are infringing their self-righteous ideas on you. But really if you think about it, you are infringing on theirs. They are not infringing on your right to receive plan b.
Similar to a lawyer refusing to defend you. That does not mean he is infringing your right to be represented in a court of law. A ob/gyn has every right to refuse an abortion. A pharmacist should have the same rights.
In short, there are probably better ways to handle this mess.
If you do not like your physician, go to another one!
If you do not like your pharmacist,
go find another one.
Again, I am pro-choice, and we should not impose our morales on pharmacists, doctors or anyone else.
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