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Arizona pharmacists who cite a moral objection could refuse to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception, according to legislation introduced this week at the state Capitol.
Similarly, the proposal - House Bill 2564 - would allow any hospital worker or health professional to refuse to participate in an abortion or dispense medication to abort a pregnancy.
Oh goodness, can we file this away under "Government interferes with the free market?" I mean wouldn't this be an example of the government telling private employers that their employees are under no obligation to perform the service that the employer is in business to provide?
Firstly, most doctors don't perform abortions, anyway. It's simply not in the list of procedures they do. You go to a specialist - generally Planned Parenthood - for a procedure such as that.
Secondly, if a pharmacist ever decides that one of my medications is too immoral to fill the prescription, I would want that pharmacist to either do his/her job, or find another job that doesn't offend their fine moral sensibilities. Not all women who are on birth control pills are on them for contraceptive reasons, yet, under this proposed legislation, those women could have their prescriptions denied by a holier-than-thou pharmacist.
My state legislators will be hearing from me tomorrow. Yes, I'm in the backward state of Arizona. We're trying our best to be the bottom of the country.
The ACLU sued because a muslim cafeteria worker did not want to serve pork...tell what the difference is?
I know that there are on only three posts on this thread, but I seem to have missed the post supporting the Muslim cafeteria workers right not to serve port.
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If you are hired to dispense medication that has been prescribed by a doctor and you refuse, you should be fired and lose your license to practice pharmacy. If I work for the phone company, can I refuse to install service in an adult bookstore? Can the Christian power company employee refuse electric power to a Mosque? As for doctors, few of them perform abortions and they are not required to do so.
The ACLU sued because a muslim cafeteria worker did not want to serve pork...tell what the difference is?
Honestly? I think that, if you are Muslim, Jewish, or other religion that prohibits the handling of certain foods, you should not be working in an establishment as a potential server of those items. Now, if the restaurant is cafeteria-style like Luby's or Furr's, they can arrange the line so that the religious worker doesn't have to serve those items, and without much trouble to the establishment. It may be possible to make everyone happy without a lawsuit.
Making people pharmacy-hop for their legally prescribed medications because someone has a religious objection to a medication. What if they objected to narcotic-based medications due to the addictive nature of them, and refused to give you your pain meds after surgery?
It's their job to dispense prescriptions, not judge the prescription or the doctor or the patient. If they don't want to dispense properly written prescriptions, they should not be a pharmacist. Or they can work at a Catholic hospital, where the pharmacy simply does not dispense the objectionable meds (except I think even the Catholics are okay with pain meds).
I've no problem with the case of hospital staff/physicians who do not want to participate in an abortion. That is something that should never be forced. As far as the pharmacist....that is a bit trickier. If the pharmacy is a privately owned business it is entirely up to the owner/pharmacist as to what Rxs he/she will have and will sell. Although in that case it would behoove the pharmist in question to let all drs know what services he will not provide.
I know that there are on only three posts on this thread, but I seem to have missed the post supporting the Muslim cafeteria workers right not to serve port.
I think the point is that the ACLU will defend the right of muslims to not go against their religious convictions, yet the same people who tend to support the ACLU will have a problem with christians who refuse to go against their religious convictions.
If you are hired to dispense medication that has been prescribed by a doctor and you refuse, you should be fired and lose your license to practice pharmacy. If I work for the phone company, can I refuse to install service in an adult bookstore? Can the Christian power company employee refuse electric power to a Mosque? As for doctors, few of them perform abortions and they are not required to do so.
Thanks to the ACLU and the liberal left, the answers to your questions are:
Yes, yes, and yes.
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