Druggists Refuse to Give Out Pill...

I'm not sure of the actual source of this and don't really have time for a search, I'll probably do it after class though. Anyway, a lady on another board just posted this and I wanted to bring it here. I think this is bullshit. I understand and respect people's moral objections to things like this, but it is not their place to refuse me the pill if I choose to take it and have my prescription. If their moral objections are so strong that some won't even pass it off to another pharmacist to fill, then they don't need to be a pharmacist. I'm sorry. But like I said, it's my choice and not their place to make that decision for me. Like I said on the other board. I know people who have objections to me taking Zoloft...saying that all I need is God even though I am a Christian and I was still suicidal well past getting saved, and am much better now. Imagine if a pharmacist refused to give me my Zoloft! Oh no way in hell. Anyway...I'll be searchin for a source later, unless someone else here finds one before I get back. I just think this is ridiculous.

 

Wow! I feel that this should be handled much in the way that most things should be handled. That is, Personal opinion and belief should stay completely out of the way here.

That will be one more right trampled on. Wonder how the pharmacist would like it if he was told hey, it is my personal belief that your store should only be open on Mon, Wed, and Sat from the hours of 8:00am - 10:00 am because I think that you are an IDIOT! LMAO

All joking aside, I can see how this would make one furious.

 

Just recently my father had surgeory and has been getting quite a few prescriptions from his doctor for pain pills. He gets them filled at CVS and one of the pharmacists told him over the phone (when he called to see if the script had been filled) that he refuses to fill any more scripts for pain pills for my dad and that he reserves the right to do so if he pleases. Isnt that crazy? My dad is a 46 year old man who has had back surgeory for God's sake! These pharmacists have way too much fucking time on their hands.
I cannot beleive though that they are also refusing women their birth control pills over their own personal beliefs! It is their job to fill scripts from doctors. They are the middle man.....that is all.........fill it, give it and shut up about it!

 

This is fucking ridiculous. It is their job to dispense the medicine they are TOLD to, not what they think they should. And they are actualy considering making laws to help those fanatic bastards?? The hell is wrong with this country?

 

In the case of pain meds, the blame most likely lies not with the pharmacist, but with the federal government, specifically the DEA.

In the name of fighting the "War on Drugs", the DEA is keeping close tabs on the amount of opiates dispensed by pharmacies. If a pharmacy exceeds whatever arbitrary (and constantly changing) threshold their local DEA office sets, they get a visit from auditors who proceed to go through all their records and procedures with a fine-tooth comb. If any pills were dispensed to somebody with an improper prescription, the pharmacist or their employer can be subjected to serious legal sanctions, even if the pharmacist was unaware that the script was forged or altered!

Essentially, pharmacists have been forced into becoming law enforcement officers, at the risk of losing their licenses!

The "opt-out" system that allows pharmacists not to dispense certain drugs based on personal moral/religious beliefs sets a very dangerous precedent. If carried to its logical conclusion, it might allow them to refuse contraceptives or drugs like Viagra to unmarried patients, AIDS treatments to anyone who caught the disease through sex or IV drug use, or treatments for just about anything if the pharmacist happened to be a Christian Science adherent....

 

Wow, I was not aware that pharmacys are under the microscope like that.
That's ridiculous....the entire "war on drugs" is ridiculous...but that's another thread Pharmacist should not be able to refuse birth control to a women based on their personal beliefs. It's ludacris! Does anyone know when this came to be? Did this happen ......in the last 4 years maybe????hmmmmm
I just dont understand this ridiculous thing.....And does anyone know if this is just in America?

 

So much for all the “freedom of choice” rhetoric! It evidently doesn’t apply to those who want no part in abetting chemical abortion.

Imagine if you were a abolitionist blacksmith in the early 19th century, and a slave trader came to you with a large order of chains. How would you respond?

 

That's terrible. I've heard of stuff like this happening, and I never want to believe it. Where do they draw the line, anyway? Like Cookiezgirl said, are they going to start that with other meds too, just because they don't believe in it? *shakes head* If you have the prescription, you have the right to have it filled. This is just another way for the pro-lifers to get what they want... Who is going to protect these womyn? No one has the right to say what goes on inside your body except YOU... apparently some people forget that. Shame on them. Would they rather womyn get pregnant before they are ready and give birth to babies they don't want? This is another example of womyn being reduced to Walking Wombs, and it makes me sick. Thanks for posting this!

 

This is just disgusting to me. No one has the right to refuse a birth control prescription or any other one for that matter based on morals. Don't they know this world already is over populated. Don't they know that if their refusal resulted in an unwanted pregnancy that chances are that person will either abort it and live with that for the rest of their life, give it up for adoption which they have to live for the rest of their lifes, or keep it and struggle to get by. All because they don't believe its right. Well we have to freedom to do what we please. We don't tell them how to live. If women are protecting their bodies it is their right to do so. Not theirs. What happens when some 13 year old girl gets refused. That could be very tramuatic for someone that young who already probably is embarassed about it already. Oh that article angers me.

 

Blacksmiths don't swear an oath to serve the public regardless of personal beliefs--PHARMACISTS DO!

Also, there is no LEGAL MONOPOLY on the forging of chains, ANYBODY with the proper knowledge and equipment could do it. The dispensing of prescription drugs, OTOH, is reserved to a certain group of people. In exchange for this legal monopoly, they give up the right to refuse to dispense legal substances with a legal prescription.

If they don't like that, they shouldn't have become pharmacists!

Of course, the best solution to the "fundie pharmacist" problem is to make oral contraceptives available OTC. Why the hell should a woman need to get a note from a doctor in order to have sex?

 

Chemical abortifacients can hardly be described as "health care."

 

Chemical abortion??! Forget the "morning after pill", we're talking about BIRTH CONTROL, meaning PREVENTING unwanted pregnancies to begin with! Answer me this: How the hell is it possible to abort an UNFERTILIZED EGG?? Jesus Christ, even the most fanatic pro-lifers acknowledge that an UNfertilized egg isn't human! Shit, if that's the case I guess I have abortions every month

You make no god-damned sense.

EllisDTripp: I don't agree that BC should be available over the counter (although I would support being able to get a six-months supply at once, since it's a pain in the ass to go refill it every month) because BC can be dangerous for some women, and alot of women will take it without thinking ("Oh, I can't get STDs, I'm on the pill!" ) Plus, it's not like Tylenol--it's actually a hormone, and I don't think it's a bright idea for anyone to be synthetically messing with their hormones without a doctor's supervision. (i.e. would you want steroids to be available otc?)

 

To my knowledge, the low-dose pills most commonly used today can prevent both ovulation and implantation.

 

Yes! Exactly! That's what I was saying! So how the hell is that a "chemical abortion"?

 

oh i'd love to field this one, load of crap that it is.

there's a right-wing conservative movement that cites studies where perhaps 5% of the time, an egg actually is released while a woman is on birth control pills and this egg does sometimes come into contact with sperm. in that case, birth control pills work in another way other than preventing ovulation - they prevent implantation. so this particular conservative movement says that, well it was already a baby, and by preventing the egg from being implanted, it is abortion.

this is why george bush and this conservatism that is spreading in the united states scares the hell out of me. where is the line going to be drawn? no third trimester abortions? no second? none at all? no birth control? no condoms? you have to get pregnant everytime you have your period or else that precious egg is going to be lost and that egg could have grown up to be the doctor who cures cancer?

scaaaaaary.

 

Those pharmacists should be fired for not doing their job, which is dispensing inventory as prescribed by the doctor...end of story...

Do you see the check out person at the grocery store refusing to give the fat kid ice cream...I think not.

 

Exactly.

and hehe

 

back when i used to take birth control pills, my family doctor wouldnt write me a prescription but them BUT she would always have a co-worker fax it into the pharmacy for me that day and that was fine....

 

LOL seamonster, that's an excellent argument. Awesome!

 

"Eggs" don't implant; human embryos do.

Nobody, not even the Catholic Church, is talking about banning OTC contraceptives or even hormonal birth control. What we're talking about is respecting the right of pharmacists not to participate in facilitating chemically induced elective abortions.