WP wrote:anyone who wants condoms, birth control pills or the Plan B emergency contraceptive will be turned away.
The pharmacies are emerging at a time when a variety of health-care workers are refusing to perform medical procedures they find objectionable. Fertility doctors have refused to inseminate gay women. Ambulance drivers have refused to transport patients for abortions. Anesthesiologists have refused to assist in sterilizations.
Some pro-life pharmacies are identical to typical drugstores except that they do not stock some or all forms of contraception. Others also refuse to sell tobacco, rolling papers or pornography
"Rape victims could end up in a pharmacy not understanding this pharmacy will not meet their needs," Greenberger said. "We've seen an alarming development of pharmacists over the last several years refusing to fill prescriptions, and sometimes even taking the prescription from the woman and refusing to give it back to her so she can fill it in another pharmacy." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/15/AR2008061502180.html
On an unrelated side note, would anyone be surprised if they saw this guy on the next installment of To Catch A Predator?
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H.L Mencken
The Dude wrote:If the market can support a pro-life pharmacy, then why not? It would be a private business.
I guess the market might support a hospital that conforms to the Jehova's Witness' blood transfusion standards too. I guess that would be fine. As long as I didn't end up there...
The article brings up a good point, in rural counties where this sort of ignorance is celebrated and supported by "the market" women face the danger of not having immediate access to birth control. Especially if these self-righteous pharmacists refuse to tell them where they can fill their scripts or take them away.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H.L Mencken
If we can have pro-life pharmacies can we add in pro-death suicide booths. I want to see the ones in Futurama in everyday use complete with grisly death option.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
I get my prescriptions filled at Walgreen's. They don't seem to discriminate. If I needed contraception (I don't because I'm currently a loser), I'd buy it there as well. This post is a shameless plug for Walgreen's. Go corporate America!
The Dude wrote:If the market can support a pro-life pharmacy, then why not? It would be a private business.
I guess the market might support a hospital that conforms to the Jehova's Witness' blood transfusion standards too. I guess that would be fine. As long as I didn't end up there...
That's not the same thing. You could die without a blood transfusion or proper ER care, but such is not the case with buying a rubber, getting an artificial insemination, a surgical sterilization, even an abortion except in rare cases.
And you say some drug-stores won't sell porn? Oh, the horror. LOL
The article brings up a good point, in rural counties where this sort of ignorance is celebrated and supported by "the market" women face the danger of not having immediate access to birth control. Especially if these self-righteous pharmacists refuse to tell them where they can fill their scripts or take them away.
Indeed, self-righteous people are a danger to us all. Somebody rural teenagers should egg that pharmacist's house, and tip his cows for good measure. That's how we dealt with self-righteous neighbors when I was a kid.
"And yet another little spot is smoothed out of the echo chamber wall..." Bond
silentkid wrote:I get my prescriptions filled at Walgreen's. They don't seem to discriminate. If I needed contraception (I don't because I'm currently a loser), I'd buy it there as well. This post is a shameless plug for Walgreen's. Go corporate America!
How's the porn section at Walgreens?
"And yet another little spot is smoothed out of the echo chamber wall..." Bond
The Dude wrote:Indeed, self-righteous people are a danger to us all. Somebody rural teenagers should egg that pharmacist's house, and tip his cows for good measure. That's how we dealt with self-righteous neighbors when I was a kid.
How dare people try to live by their moral codes? Keep that crap private and toe the line! Don't let your choices have any effect on anyone else and most definitely don't let them feel any shame over their choices. That would be wrong!!!!
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
First: "Walling off" women's health care? Beware dramatic metaphors from lawyers. There is no wall. You bring your scrip to the pharmacy, and the guy at the counter says, "Sorry, we don't stock contraceptives." That's annoying and, in my view, stupid. But nobody's walling you in. Your burden consists of finding another pharmacy.
Third: "Professional obligations" to provide all health care? Actually, doctors and hospitals draw moral lines around their practices all the time. This doctor won't pull the plug; that one won't do abortions; this other one can't in good conscience collaborate in your faith-based treatment plan.
Fifth: Whole regions where pharmacies won't stock contraceptives? Come on. Only seven have even signed the "pro-life" pledge. It's true that abortions have been driven out of rural counties. But politically, the resistance to birth control is nothing like the resistance to abortion. A pharmacy that won't stock contraceptives looks pretty silly.
A pharmacy that won't stock contraceptives looks pretty silly. But it doesn't exactly make for scary times, in my opinion.
"And yet another little spot is smoothed out of the echo chamber wall..." Bond
