Nothing that applies to any other business should apply to the medical field. A pharmacy is not just a business so that we can just take our business elsewhere. What if next your doctor became a Jehovah witness and refused to give you a transfusion; “sorry but you have to find someone else!” (You could bleed to death, but… hey, it’s my right we’re talking about here).
Religion and Medicine do not mix-AT ALL,which is not to say you can't be a religious practitioner.
What if it starts with birth control pills and then goes on to include other drugs: what if Pharmacies team up with manufacturers and choose the medication they fill out accordingly. At a first glance it might seem harmless to let a few pharmacists get off with refusing to fill out birth-control prescriptions but these laws do not even specify Birth-control it's anything that goes against their convictions. So watch out, maybe next it will be anti-acids then pain medication etc!! Then we will have to do a "google search" just to find a pharmacy that will fill out all your prescription!
It is much like being a Public defender; you get to defend the guilty and the innocent regardless....of course you could decide not to be a public defender!
The only Instance a Medical Doctor can refuse to treat a patient is in case of an abortion request. That means that if Bin-Laden were injured and came to me, I CAN'T refuse to treat him...(I can still call the cops though!)
"Someone who is 'against' birth control for religious reasons is not by nature practicing discrimination. He is exercising religious freedom."
I agree, it is not discrimination to refuse to fill out a prescription; it is not exercising religious freedom either! Exercising religious freedom would be not taking birth-control pills themselves- not filling out prescriptions is not doing their job! Back to the Jehovah witness Doctor; not accepting a transfusion would be my right, not giving one to my patient (big difference!) Everyone has the right to practice their religion so long as they don't adversely affect others. As the saying goes "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins"!
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OK I am a doctor so I could be biased! but still...!
I said on my blog about a week ago that if this trend continues, I want to become a pharmacist AND a Christian Scientist! Christian Scientists don't believe in ANY modern medicine. How cool would it be to have a job that you refuse to do and then be protected from termination by law (in some states) for not doing my job! ;)
Religion and Medicine should not be mixed together but they certainly should be kept.
Heh! I love the google search joke.. Absolutely halarious!
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