On the latest issue of Pharmacists with a Conscience

[weaktwos]

What's all this bull I'm hearing about a growing number of "pro-life" pharmacists not dispensing birth control due to their beliefs?

Yet another indication that religion is spinning out of control in this country.

If you want to become a public defense lawyer, and yet you despise the notion of defending someone who might be guilty, you best not become a defense attorney.

If you want to become a plumber, but you hate being knee deep in disgusting refuse, you best not become a plumber.

If you are a fast food employee, but you hate making fast food, you shouldn't be in that job.

Plain and simple. The job you do will invariably come into conflict with your personal beliefs in some fashion. And if you find that objectionable, you need to find employment elsewhere.

A pharmacist's job is not to place judgment on the drugs being dispensed. The doctor takes care of that. You fill the order, and you dispense it.

I don't understand why this has to be so complicated, except you've got people who went into the wrong job.

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Posted a link in my journal about where you can go to voice concerns to the pharmacies.

I've also posted about this previously, especially after the case and Eckerd's pharmacist in Denton decided to take it upon himself to not prescribe emergency contraceptive to a rape victim (luckily the Walgreen's across the street had no qualms). A case in Wisconsin involved a Kmart pharmacist refusing to fill a prescription for a married woman to get birth control, but then he also refused to give her prescription back so she could get it filled elsewhere.

This chaps my hide. It would be different if they were working for say, a religious based pharmacy, like a Catholic hospital affiliated one, but if they're working for a public one and they aren't a doctor, they need to do their job.