03-25-2008, 23:08 PM
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Resident Curmudgeon
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Location: Panama City Fl
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Originally Posted by 7thsfsniper
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Originally Posted by Bigfella
Interesting that he complained about Muslim medical practicioners & pharmacists refusing to offer a full range of services. Christian medical practicioners, hospitals & pharmacists do precisely the same thing in reguard to contraceptives & pregnancy termination.
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I've never heard of a single incident of that (in the USA anyway) please enlighten me with an example.
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USATODAY.com - Druggists refuse to give out pill
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Druggists refuse to give out pill
By Charisse Jones, USA TODAY
For a year, Julee Lacey stopped in a CVS pharmacy near her home in a Fort Worth suburb to get refills of her birth-control pills. Then one day last March, the pharmacist refused to fill Lacey's prescription because she did not believe in birth control.
"I was shocked," says Lacey, 33, who was not able to get her prescription until the next day and missed taking one of her pills. "Their job is not to regulate what people take or do. It's just to fill the prescription that was ordered by my physician."
Some pharmacists, however, disagree and refuse on moral grounds to fill prescriptions for contraceptives. And states from Rhode Island to Washington have proposed laws that would protect such decisions.
Mississippi enacted a sweeping statute that went into effect in July that allows health care providers, including pharmacists, to not participate in procedures that go against their conscience. South Dakota and Arkansas already had laws that protect a pharmacist's right to refuse to dispense medicines. Ten other states considered similar bills this year.
The American Pharmacists Association, with 50,000 members, has a policy that says druggists can refuse to fill prescriptions if they object on moral grounds, but they must make arrangements so a patient can still get the pills. Yet some pharmacists have refused to hand the prescription to another druggist to fill.
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Pharmacists' Rights at Front Of New Debate (washingtonpost.com)
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Pharmacists' Rights at Front Of New Debate
Because of Beliefs, Some Refuse To Fill Birth Control Prescriptions
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.
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CNN.com - Pharmacists fired for denying 'morning after' pill - Feb. 12, 2004
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Pharmacists fired for denying 'morning after' pill
DENTON, Texas (AP) --Eckerd Corp. has fired three pharmacists who declined to fill an emergency contraception prescription for a woman who had been raped, one of the pharmacists said.
Gene Herr said Wednesday he and two co-workers were fired January 29, six days after refusing to fill the prescription. He said his own refusal was based on religious grounds.
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