[On <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=31667 ">this pharmacy</a>, which refuses to fill prescriptions for things like prenatal vitamins and antibiotics if they were prescribed by doctors who work at a clinic that also provides abortions]
Not to be an asshole, but I'd say "Fuck em... Drive somewhere else". Not every gas station here sells rolling papers either. So what do I gotta do? Drive to where they do. I just dont think any store should be forced into sellin abortion pills. If the demand is there, someone will, but they shouldnt be forced to, thats all.
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I would tend to agree, but for different reasons. Indeed, pharmacies shouldn't have to sell things they don't agree with, but if they don't sell things you need, then take your business elsewhere. It's simple economics.
I think that a pharmacist (or pharmacy) has no business at all getting in between the patient and the medicine that a doctor has prescribed, except perhaps briefly to call the doctor and make sure the doctor knows of some potentially problematic condition concerning the patient he/she knows about (such as another medication he/she is already on that the pharmacist thinks might react badly with the new one prescribed).
Two points:
that's pretty fucked up right there.
TDR, I'd go so far as to say that any pharmacist who does this doesn't even deserve to have a license as a pharmacist. The pharmacist's role is to be a facilitator for the patient to provide the drugs prescribed by the doctor -- not to be a moralist. If he/she can't or won't deal with that aspect of the profession, he/she should not be in it.
If I'm getting this right, this pharmacist would refuse to sell vitamins that are necessary for an unborn child because the doctor who prescribed them works at a clinic that provides abortions?
[not quite applicable, but better than 'if you don't know what you're talking 'bout...']
Yes, what's next? Muslim bartenders refusing to serve alcohol to patrons?
Not to be an asshole, but I'd say, "Fuck -you-. Where is this "somewhere else" and are -you- going to drive me there?" Because not everyone has access to a car. Not everyone has the time and energy to devote to going "somewhere else".
Don't pharmacists have to sign something that says that it's not up to their judgement to or not to give something to a patient? It's up to the doctor (unless mixing that script with another one will result in harm in which case they call the doc)?
David D.G. said everything I wanted to, except that I think some lawsuits need to be filed against these assholes that interfere with legal prescriptions. Since a pharmacist can't prescribe a drug without a doctor's signed permission, I think they should not be allowed to deny a perscription without the M.D.'s permission.
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Not really. The Catholic Diocese in my region has an establishment they disguised as a pregnancy clinic that exists solely to discourage women from having abortions using fake ultrasounds (real ultrasound photos of late term babies).
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