(from an article regarding pharmacies refusing to sell birth control)
"We try to practice pharmacy in a way that we feel is best to help our community and promote healthy lifestyles," said Lloyd Duplantis, who owns Lloyd's Remedies in Gray, La., and is a deacon in his Catholic church. "After researching the science behind steroidal contraceptives, I decided they could hurt the woman and possibly hurt her unborn child. I decided to opt out."
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Silly business decision, but not really too fundie.
The pharmacist is not there to decide if you really need the medicine your doctor prescribed or not. You count out the effing pills and you give me my prescription. I don't give two shits about what medicines your god wants me to take or not. If you're a pharmacist who is refusing to do his job because of your wacky religious beliefs, you're a fundie.
You’re a pharmacist, you stupid fuck. Vetting medication for its safety and effectiveness is not your job. Dispensing the medications approved by a regulating body and proscribed by doctors that is your job.
Quit trying to do a job for which you’re not qualified, and start doing the job for which you’re trained. Either that, or leave the profession.
"After researching the science behind steroidal contraceptives, I decided they could hurt the woman
Right, women can't think for themselves so you'll need to make decisions for them. Move back to the 13th century you misogynist fuckwit.
Well, if she's already pregnant, it's a little late to be taking contraceptives, anyway. Think BEFORE you speak. It works better that way.
Besides which, you're not the doctor. Doctors are responsible for prescribing drugs. Your responsibility is to ensure they're the correct drugs in the correct dosages and to educate in their correct usage. It is NOT to decide whether they should be taken or not.
After researching the science behind steroidal contraceptives, I decided they could [...]possibly hurt her unborn child
Bullshit. There is no evidence to suggest that hormonal bc would have a harmful effect on a developing embryo/fetus. That's just misinformation peddled by those who would have all women made broodmares.
He's an independent businessman in a free enterprise country. He can do what he wants.
"Condoms, ever heard of 'em?"
In the article they say they don't provide those either:
"When DMC Pharmacy opens this summer on Route 50 in Chantilly, the shelves will be stocked with allergy remedies, pain relievers, antiseptic ointments and almost everything else sold in any drugstore. But anyone who wants condoms, birth control pills or the Plan B emergency contraceptive will be turned away."
Heeey, good thing we silly ladies have this random, God-fearing dude to make our decisions for us! Or we might go off and ooh... I don't know, have sex for pleasure? That would be terrible.
Bleargh. When are the puritans going to get their noses out of women's sex lives?
Wow, Lloyd, you won't fill my girlfriend's prescription because you have moral issues concerning her health? Okay, just give me a pack of cigarettes.
And can Scientologist pharmacists refuse to dispense antidepressants on the grounds that these conflict with their beliefs? How about a Christian Scientist pharmacists right not to dispense any medications at all, but receive equal pay to sell chewing gum and hand out healing prayer leaflets?
Ah yes, the whole contraceptive pill thing...
Shame that this shitforbrains doesn't know/care that there are valid medical reasons for women to take the pill other than just to stop spawning. My ex's mother took them to help limit the length of her periods... When you bleed for 25 days out of every fucking month, something to reduce that can be a life-saver. (and it was... up until she had a total hysterectomy)
If ElFucktard here wants to actively refuse to dispense life-saving medication, then he's in need of a good, swift kick to the balls and to be banned from ever being a Pharmacist again.
next step:
refuse to fill prescriptions to help people undergoing gender re-assignment
refuse to fill any prescriptions for teh gheys!
Picking and choosing how you deal with and the circumstances is certainly NOT acceptable in public service especially public health. How long before a nurse, doctor, or paramedic is allowed to avoid treating a gay man?
We bend over backwards to avoid offending these superstitionists, yet they won't afford us gays the same courtesy
Really, you went to school for two years to count pills, nothing else. Leave the science to the scientists. Before choosing a career, maybe you should consider your morality. Muslims shouldn't work for the SPCA (Dogs), PETA supporters shouldn't work in animal research facilities, Fundies shouldn't work anywhere they come into contact with the rest of society.
Edit:anyone who wants condoms, birth control pills or the Plan B emergency contraceptive will be turned away.
The biggest issue with these pharmacists is the small towns where they are THE only pharmacy within 20+ miles. Especially with gas prices going up. If there's a choice of pharmacies in town where the woman can get bc, or people can pick up condoms, it's one thing. I think the pharmacist is still stupid but, at least the populace of the town has a somewhere else to go to get them.
"The pharmacist is not there to decide if you really need the medicine your doctor prescribed or not. You count out the effing pills and you give me my prescription. I don't give two shits about what medicines your god wants me to take or not. If you're a pharmacist who is refusing to do his job because of your wacky religious beliefs, you're a fundie."
Exactly, and we should fire them all and get some people in who will actually DO THEIR FUCKING JOBS WITHOUT WHINING ABOUT FUCKING GOD.
surely pharmacists have to be licensed, and surely their licensors could remove their license. Certain professions require you to leave your conscience outside to serve EVERY member of the community, and a pharmacist is one of them. Once you are allowed to pick and choose according to your conscience the service every member of the community can rightfully expect is stolen.
Excerpt from The Washington Times:
DMC Pharmacy, a pro-life Catholic pharmacy that opened with much fanfare in Chantilly, Va., in October 2008, closed last month because of lack of funds.
"We could not make it work financially," said Robert Laird, executive director for the pharmacy, whose letters stood for Divine Mercy Care. "We could never get that big push to make it viable and finally the board of directors said enough was enough."
By the time the store closed March 4, it was losing in the tens of thousands of dollars per month. When it opened 18 months ago at a cost of $350,000 just as the national economy was in a free fall, the 1,500-square-foot store on Metrotech Drive did not stock birth control pills, condoms, cigarettes or pornographic magazines.
" I decided they could hurt the woman and possibly hurt her unborn child. I decided to opt out."
If that's your honest reason, then you have to refuse to give a woman ANY type of medication. Because they all can hurt the person taking them, or a fetus if she is pregnant. So, no pain meds, anti depressants, or laxitives for ladies, because they all have side effects.
Also, you should not let any women you know drink, consume under cooked meat, drive, or smoke....because those activities are just as dangerous to women and their fetuses as birth control.
You dumbass.
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