walrus

In case the text didn't convey it well enough - the title of this thread was meant to be read in the voice of the "Soup Nazi" from Seinfeld -

This incident happened locally but it is my understanding that it has happened throughout the country. A woman went to a Walgreens pharmacy to fill a prescription for birth control. According to the woman's own statement, the (female) pharmacist politely told her that she could not fill that prescription on moral grounds. She told the customer that another pharmacist would be in shortly and that he could fill it, or she could call her prescription in to another pharmacy. The woman is now outraged, litigious, and promoting a law requiring pharmacists to fill all legal prescriptions put before them.

What do you think?

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Gandhi>Bush

How are perscription birth control pills against anyone's morals?

I wouldn't mind a law requiring pharmacists to fill perscriptions, but all in all I'm fairly indifferent.

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Fantasea

Perhaps the pharmacist felt that she was entitled to exercise her first amendment freedom. Can we expect the ACLU to weigh in on this?

26 X World Champs

Great logic, again! So if a pharmacist is against certain medications she has the right to not dispense them? Anyone who would support depriving anyone of any prescription is living in a sick Fantasea world....

ludahai

Because for some people, birth control pills violate their religious principles. The Catholic Church teaches that the use of birth control pills are a moral wrong. I happen to agree with that position.

This isn't like most other prescriptions which are designed to cure someone from some kind of illness. This inteferes with the natural order of the creation of human life. This is something that is a violation of the moral belief of millions of Americans. Should someone be driven out of a profession that they have trained for and perhaps even love because they have a moral objection to one class of medication? There are plenty of other pharmicists who WILL fill out the prescription. Let them fill it!

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Simon W. Moon

It's not just Catholics who have reservations about certain forms of birth control. I suupose that someone in the pharmacists' position might equate it with you being asked to help support war.

This is a tricky situation. In general, I'd say that someone's right to observe their religious conviction would outweigh someone's need for The Pill. Yet, the issue has further ramifications than just bc.

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Fantasea

Why not? The pharmacist was not placing the woman's life in danger.

Hospital personnel who are not Pro-Death can't be forced to participate in abortion procedures.

Depending on ones philosophical leanings, Wal-Mart either practices censorship or exercises its first amendment rights in refusing to sell CDs it had deemed to be offensive.

Why should anyone be forced to act against his conscience?

akyron

They should not. They could work somewhere else. An alternative would be to just hang a sign:

We reserve the right to refuse service.

shuamort

You'll have to remind us all how these pharmacists were FORCED to work these jobs.

Fu_chick

There is no such thing as freedom of speech in a private business. I would be livid if that happened to me. If she has such a problem dispensing certain meds, then maybe she is in the wrong business. If someone has such an issue with it they either need to have a second pharmacist with them at all times who CAN fill the subscription, or they need to to find somewhere else to work. I have always used Walgreen's, but if one of their people pulled that crap they would at the VERY least they would b getting a nasty letter from me.