Bury Me Broken

Pharmacist Refuse to give Birth Control for Religious Reasons

From the Washington Post, Monday, March 28, 2005; Page A01

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.

"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," [said Steven H. Aden of the Christian Legal Society's Center for Law and Religious Freedom in Annandale, which defends pharmacists.]

"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," said Adam Sonfield of the Alan Guttmacher Institute in New York, 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."

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


A pharmacist does not have a right to refuse to do what he is employed and paid to do. Advocacy groups attempt to connect these cases with assisted suicide which is totally different because it is illegal. If you can not in good conscience do your job, you should be doing a different job. Individuals that say the Hippocratic oath will not allow them to dispense birth control medication are the same pharmacists that will fill prescriptions for housewives abusing Xanax or valium.

The Religious Right are demonstrating that it is there way or the highway. It will continue to get worse until America has had enough. How long will that take? I hope it comes soon because our plight gets progressively worse.

Pharmacists' Rights at Front Of New Debate

posted by niteskolar @ 9:11 AM