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Washington pharmacists can decide what medicines to dispense; state working to allow for religious objections to contraception (secularnewsdaily.com)

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[–]tasty_soy_sauce 20 points21 points ago

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Dear pharmacists who have religious objections to dispensing medication: you knew what you were getting into when you were in school. The time for objecting to it was then...by withdrawing from school.

[–]bwbeer 8 points9 points ago

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Hey legislators!

This means your cum-dumpsters won't get birth control and you will have to pay for those babies! And your wife might get curious when your 'son' shows up on the front door...or the third or fourth.

[–]N8theGr8 0 points1 point ago

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Just think of all the money you'll be saving on birth control. Just save it up and put it toward an abortion.

[–]Waterrat 6 points7 points ago

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So when will this nation become a theocracy? Looks like we are moving that way fucking fast.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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I'm sure people will just stop buying birth control altogether, or, continue patronising that pharmacy for everything other than birth control. There's no way this will backfire.

[–]N8theGr8 1 point2 points ago

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If they can withhold medicine based on religious grounds, can they switch medicine based on religious grounds? Like maybe your religion believes that humanity is a scourge upon the Earth, and must be eliminated. In this case you could switch that heart medication with cyanide tablets. WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE!?

[–]kerbuffel -2 points-1 points ago

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Probably somewhere around where people start getting killed?

[–]tom_corbenik 3 points4 points ago

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As much as I can't stand religious fundamentalists, I still think that pharmacists should choose what they sell. It's their business after all. No one should force them to sell things they don't want to. They may be less successful because of it, but it's their choice to screw themselves over like that. Telling them what to sell is just big government interfering with private business yet again.

[–]THEMACGOD 8 points9 points ago

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I'll agree with you if it's a company policy... Like, if Walgreen's says, "Look, we won't sell Plan B in any of our stores." - that's a company policy and the employees are bound by it if they decide to work there.

However, if one pharmacist in a Walgreen's that SELLS Plan B, or whatever, refuses to sell to a person, then they should be fired for not doing his/her job.

If you have religious issues for something (or whatever your issues), you should think twice before going into a field where those issues will be at odds with scientific fact and/or company policy - It's like when the Muslim doctor's made a stink last year because they have to wash their hands before operating.

Really?

REALLY???

Jesus fucking Christ we're headed backwards as fast as our Political Correctness will allow.

[–]tom_corbenik 1 point2 points ago

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I guess I didn't make myself too clear. If they work for a company, then yes, they should follow company policy and sell whatever the company tells them to sell. But if they own and operate their own private pharmacy, they should be able to choose what they can and can't sell.

[–]deepthot42 8 points9 points ago

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They also shouldn't be forced to serve people of different ethnicity or cultural background.

To each their own!

(why yes, I AM being facetious)

[–]geeked_outHyperbagel 2 points3 points ago

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If they don't want to sell these things, they should not be pharmacists.

[–]momzill 0 points1 point ago

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/nodding in agreement

[–]kerbuffel 0 points1 point ago

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Agreed. If the government can force them to sell contraception drugs, the precedent is set if, say, they wanted to force stores to sell homeopathic 'drugs.'

But, let's be honest: most chain pharmacies are going to determine what they sell at a headquarters miles away, so the pharmacist will have to sell whatever HQ says. Small independent pharmacies may choose not to sell it, which will only be a problem if women that want the drug only have one pharmacy to go to.

[–]lunar_aurora 0 points1 point ago

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NARAL Washington and Planned Parenthood helped pass the 'Pharmacy Refusal Clause' which makes it against the law to refuse anyone the morning after pill or birth control. Of course, a pharmacist should not have this job if they are unable to fill the prescription. The most we can do is support organizations that are--sigh-- lobbying crazily to make sure this does not get overturned, and that it is enforced especially in rural areas. Also, it does not hurt to write a few letters!

[–]momzill 0 points1 point ago

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This is such bullshit. Fuck those pharmacists, do your job and keep your personal shit out of it.

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