Religious Nutcase Pharmacist Threaten Women's Health (suspect, racist, Kennedy, Kerry)

[Tom Lennox 70]

arod, I don't appreciate these personal attacks. No, when I'm a pharmacist I will honor a doctor's prescription. Plan B is a different story but I will direct the customer to a different store and before doing so I will make sure there is a pharmacist in that different store who will fill it....that's all assuming I'm in retail pharmacy which there's a good chance I won't be in since there are so many options after pharmacy school.

I keep my personal beleifs to myself. But you bet when it comes to my personal life and who I will accept as a friend I will do that according to my personal beliefs. So if I somehow end up working in a retail pharmacy, yes, I will honor doctors' prescriptions for birth control, but that doesn't mean that in my own family, anything other than abstinence and moral education is out of the question.

[KevK]

Originally Posted by texdav

I say go to another pharmacy;no big deal.

For most of us that is fine but when you live in Notown, Mississippi and that is the only game in town, you have a problem. Now, if he wants to put his money where his "morality" is, then let's have a law that requires him to direct a woman to a pharmacy where it can be filled AND to pay her $1.00 a mile to drive there and back or pay the round trip taxi fare. And we will see how long he will do that for.

[Tom Lennox 70]

Technically a private business can refuse service to anyone they choose to. It is perfectly legal for a casino to throw out any player, for example. Thats how if a player has a strategy for winning at blackjack for example even if he's not doing anything illegal the casino can throw him out and this happens a lot. Because technically the casino is owned by a private company and a private owner can decide who freqeutns his business.

[mimimomx3]

I think that mixing religion and commerce can lead to a loss of business (pharmacist). Mixing religion and GOVERNMENT (fire/police department, public hospita) is unconstitutional. Don't patronize the wacky pharmacist. I know I wouldn't.

[LML]

Originally Posted by evolvement

Kev was absolutely correct in his analysis. Pay close attention to the overriding theme in his post, and in the examples that he gives. It's clear that religion is dangerous and leads to discrimination if taken to an extreme, as in this case with the radical and rebellious pharmacist.

If it so happens that you allow your religion to get in the way of objectively performing your job, you need to find another job.

So all the wonderful things that the pharmacist does and does well to help people doesn't matter. He/She must turn their back on their own faith in order to conform with current PC standards? There are other drugstores, clinics, and hospitals where people can get their morning after pill. But you can not, according to our constitution, require a nun who is a nurse to assist in abortion, a jew or muslim to serve bacon in their resturant, or a hindii to slaughter cattle. It is called freedom of religion and in is written in black and white in our constitution....not "inferred" like some so called rights that have been "discovered" later. Or don't you believe in the constitution.

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by Tom Lennox 70

arod, I don't appreciate these personal attacks. No, when I'm a pharmacist I will honor a doctor's prescription. Plan B is a different story but I will direct the customer to a different store and before doing so I will make sure there is a pharmacist in that different store who will fill it....that's all assuming I'm in retail pharmacy which there's a good chance I won't be in since there are so many options after pharmacy school.

I keep my personal beleifs to myself. But you bet when it comes to my personal life and who I will accept as a friend I will do that according to my personal beliefs. So if I somehow end up working in a retail pharmacy, yes, I will honor doctors' prescriptions for birth control, but that doesn't mean that in my own family, anything other than abstinence and moral education is out of the question.

Any pharmacist who refuses to fill a doctor's lawfull Rx should have their license revoked. Period.

As far as your "morality" goes, I suspect you DO sell tobacco products and alcohol too if your state allows it.

Keep your faith to yourself as far as filling of Rx's is concerned, else get out of the biz and go preach on a street corner.

[arod0331]

Originally Posted by Tom Lennox 70

arod, I don't appreciate these personal attacks.

How is it a personal attack? I don't remember calling you any names?

[Tom Lennox 70]

But others worry about what will happen if such pharmacies proliferate, especially in rural areas.

"We may find ourselves with whole regions of the country where virtually every pharmacy follows these limiting, discriminatory policies and women are unable to access legal, physician-prescribed medications," said R. Alta Charo, a University of Wisconsin lawyer and bioethicist. "We're talking about creating a separate universe of pharmacies that puts women at a disadvantage."


....this is my PERSONAL, NOT PROFESSIONAL opinoin.....this is a great thing. Those liberals and leftwing Obama types can stay in or move to Boston, New Jersey, Chicago, New York, and California....I don't think Middle America needs them.

[KevK]

Originally Posted by Tom Lennox 70

Technically a private business can refuse service to anyone they choose to. It is perfectly legal for a casino to throw out any player, for example. Thats how if a player has a strategy for winning at blackjack for example even if he's not doing anything illegal the casino can throw him out and this happens a lot. Because technically the casino is owned by a private company and a private owner can decide who freqeutns his business.

I differ. A pharmacy is licensed by the state as are the people that work in it. Rules apply for the good of the public and medical care is not the same as gambling. And I think any casino that bars somebody that has not broken the rules should lose its license too. There is no such thing as a "private business" unless they are not open to the public in general (such as a private club). If a business is open to the public, it should have to serve all people that can afford its services and obey its rules. A cafe might hang out a sign that says "we reserve the right to refuse service" but they don't without a reason for doing so.

[Tom Lennox 70]

If an unmarried woman is not a ***** or a **** she won't need birth control pills. We don't need those liberal coastal types penetrating middle American cities or rural areas. John Kerry and Ted Kennedy can keep their abortion loving, terrorist appeasing, illegal immigrant sympathizing back in New England.