Druggists refuse to give out The Pill.

[martygreene]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20041109/pl_usatoday/druggistsrefusetogiveoutpill


Now that is just utter bullshit. I don't care WHO you are, you have no right to fuck with someone else's body. How does the druggist know why someone is taking hormonal BC? They don't. Good example? Me. I'm not on BC because it prevents babies, I'm on BC because otherwise I bleed until I pass out from blood loss, am in horrible pain 9 out of 10 days, and there is a very good possibility that I may someday need surgery to help solve endometriosis caused problems.

Comments

[popejeremy.livejournal.com]

Well, while what that particular pharmicist did was unprofesional and wrong, it's also wrong to propose that if someone's job requires one to do something that one feels is morally wrong, that one should ignore one's concience and do it anyway.

The problem here is not that the pharmicist chose his concience over responsibility to a his job. For that he should be respected. The issue is that the pharmicist has a lame concience, and a collapsed intellect.

[martygreene.livejournal.com]

well, some states have now passed legislature that allows more druggists and doctors to be lame. grr.

[strange-quark.livejournal.com]

the counterargument here is that if one knows that his future profession will require him to engage in things that are against his conscience, shouldn't he make a decision to avoid this profession so as to avoid being unprofessional and irresponsible? i don't think that one should agree in the first place to do things that are morally repugnant to him or herself and then fail to do so.

[popejeremy.livejournal.com]

Thats a good counterargument. You win. This guy is a loser on all
levels. I hope he gets fired and cries about it for a while.

[beeporama.livejournal.com]

I thought the same thing. For example, if you're vegetarian, don't get a job at McDonald's then refuse to sell anything but salads.

But OK, so the law's the law, and as long as it stands I hope and expect the profit motive to come into play. If you refuse to dispense a popular drug, you're costing your pharmacy money; you're probably going to have a hard time getting hired or holding a job. The article is not clear about whether the job of the pharmacist is protected, or if they can be fired for refusing to fill a prescription...

[talentshow.livejournal.com]

I can't fucking deal with that. If anyone ever did that to me, what I would do in response would make the national news.

[martygreene.livejournal.com]

Oh trust me... I'm the same way.