"Pro-Life Pharmacy"

[_Jersey Girl]

As per the OP.

I'm fully okay with the concept of a pro-life pharmacy.

Taking away a person's prescription: not okay.

[_The Dude]

These are scary times we are living in:

If the market can support a pro-life pharmacy, then why not? It would be a private business.

My main beef with that is that some markets don't really have enough business to support more than one pharmacy, and if it happens to be one where the guy or woman behind the counter will take one's prescription for plan B and not give it back, nor fill it, then women who have need of the services these "pro-life" pharmacies won't provide will be out of luck.

I accept that if there are people who have absolutely no alternative, then we have a problem. Maybe government should step in for them, or it can be purchased over the internet and delivered by a courier. These days there isn't much of an excuse if you can't procure your birth control pills over the internet. Or doctors could order directly for their patients.

Plan B is new. Hopefully people in these crazy rural areas realize that they're going to have to stick with plan A for a while... whatever that was! We don't have to rush it out to them like a polio vaccine.

Okay, I am not generally conservative and I'm not a die hard capitalist, but on this issue I don't think we should force this service through people who morally oppose it. Don't forget: at least we've progressed enough to make it legal.

Personally, I don't buy the "private business" excuse.

In this case it is private business! The original article was responding to a small set of pharmacies that pledged to not provide contraception.


clarification: I agree that no pharmacist should confiscate a customer's perscription.

[_asbestosman]

I accept that if there are people who have absolutely no alternative, then we have a problem. Maybe government should step in for them, or it can be purchased over the internet and delivered by a courier. These days there isn't much of an excuse if you can't procure your birth control pills over the internet.

But the alternatives can easily become a problem. what if we end up with pro-life courierss and pro-life Internet Service Providers?

And yet even I am not comfortable forcing people to provide services they disagree with. That said, I suppose nobody forces anyone to be a pharmicist.