How long has the morning after pill been in existence? This fellow could have been a pharmacist long before the drug became available.
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I have now put you on ignore.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
How long has the morning after pill been in existence? This fellow could have been a pharmacist long before the drug became available.
Is that too difficult for you to understand? Do we need to draw crayon pictures?If you don't like reality, change it! me
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Why don't you try having this discussion with some actual rape victims?
While I could not be a rape counsellor, being a man and all, I would certainly do a different approach. Show them the humanity of the child they carry.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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By law, as a licensed pharmacist, he must fill any legal doctors prescription if he has those drugs on hand. If this issue mattered so much to him, the second Eckhart begun to stock the drugs, he should have quit and tied to find some chain that did not. That would have been his conscience acting up.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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Emperor Fabulous & lightblue:
You can't understand because you are NOT a woman.
Do you want to have the baby of a man who raped you?
Edit: same point for lightblue.
Further more, the morning after pill is a lot less harsh for a woman than an abortion, and if all the pharmacists had "moral issues" with giving the pill, THAT'S what she'd get.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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He should've been fired."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Now, compare this to our example. A Catholic, who dispenses the morning after pill, would consider themselves to be an accessory to murder. True, the pill may not cause an abortion, but the purpose of the pill is to prevent the implantation of the unborn child. There is no other purpose for the drug. That to me should seem considerably different grounds than even my own contraceptive example to allow for freedom of conscience.
So he DOESN'T WORK THERE, MORON.
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Originally posted by Verto
And you are always available, when it comes to defend the right to be an idiot.
That does not mean I disagree with him in this particular case.
I don't see the idiocy point. I usually try to have reasonable and factual opinions, much more than some in these forums. And seriously, Verto, you don't shine amongst the Philosophical Intelligence of Poly OT.In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.
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Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
And how do we know that this is not the case? We need another piece of evidence, how long this pharmacist has worked there, whether he has ever faced this situation before, that sort of thing.
If he, for some strange reason did not know these drugs were now in inventory (which seems highly unlikely), what he should have done as a moral man (if he were one) was :
1. see if anyone else could attend the woman
2. If not, done his job, as he was supposed to by LAWE and the contracts he entered into with his employer
3. The quit his job.
Anything else are the actions of a bigot.If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
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Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Yes, I mean your first example and not the second. I'm not an ogre after all.
Is such a requirement constitutional, because it effectively bars Catholics in particular from working as pharmacists without a violation to their conscience.
Clearly "your personal concience" is no always an acceptable reason to deny medical care. Should the pharmacist deny pain killers to someone with a prescription after making the personal decision that the customer did something stupid and deserves to suffer some pain? Should someone who believes that epilepsy is God's punishment for sinners refuse to dispense medication to treat someone suffering from it? (This actually was a fairly common belief some time ago in the US.)
In rural areas, there may be only one pharmacy for a large distance, putting enourmous inconvenience on an individual if denied medication at one. If all the pharmacists in a rural area got together and agreed to not provide a medications, this could effectively deny people in the area acess to this medication at all.
Finally, its the DOCTOR who is expected to make any ethical judgement before writting a prescription. The Pharmacists job is simply after double checking to make sure the patient doesn't have any allergies or is taking other medications that will interact in a harmful way with the new one, the pharmacists simply makes sure the customer receives the right medication in the right dosage. A pharmacist is stepping well outside the bounds of his jobs by making moral judgements of his customers and therefore to whom he will dispense medication to.
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