Immanuel
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These pharmacists refusing are NOT taking the drug and are NOT paying for the drug, therefore it does NOT impose on their religious beliefs or the sanctity of themselves imo....but if you can show an example from the Bible that might support your contentions, then i reserve the right to change my opinion on it.I was not talking about the women that were getting the plan B, but the women who did not dispense it, as prescribed. and sorry you can not give exceptions for UNFACTUAL reasons...that's just common sense....if the gvt allowed that, then the pharmacists could refuse dispensing a number of drugs for various cures, just because they claim it is murder when IT IS NOT MURDER....you would allow people to make decisions and life more difficult for others based on LIES, just made up lies. If there is absolutely no proof what so ever that plan b kills a baby then FACTS ARE FACTS and decisions made should be made on facts.
there is NO WAY POSSIBLE that facts would show that RU 486 does not kill a fetus....because it does kill a fetus.
but in the case with Plan B, it does NOT kill a fetus, a baby....facts are facts....and to make somone who has gone through the trauma of a rape, and goes to the pharmacy to get Plan B which is offered by the pharmacy but a pharmacist working alone refuses to dispense it, which has to be taken by the victim within 3 days, and make them go through the humiliation by this NON INFORMED pharmacist and sent somewhere else for it, seems like the pharmacist is forcing their NON FACTUAL fairy tale BELIEFS upon another person who is already under a post trauma situation, even more stress.....and THAT is unacceptable....and inhumane imho.
I can accept that a pharmacy should not have to carry all drugs, especially if they make exceptions for not carry other emergency drugs, then they should be able to have Plan B as just another exception of what they do not carry. but at some point, I can accept the government not licensing them to be a pharmacy, if they refuse to carry a great deal of the drugs prescribed by doctors....there will reach a point where what the pharmacy owner chooses not to carry, will hurt the community and should not be licensed as a drug dispenser any more....
I do hope that you as a Catholic realize that there are still people, I am not one of them, who are opposed to such things as the birth control pill for reasons of faith. The little bit of liberal, that is trying to rear its ugly head in you at the moment seems to think that you can force your beliefs upon these people. That is one thing that I oppose.
I would allow pharmacists to work in a free market sense where they can determine what products they will carry. A pharmacist should not be forced to carry a cancer drug that costs them $1000/dose but they can only sell it for $4, should they? If fact, you and the government are saying that they should. Nor should a pharmacist be forced to carry Plan B whether there reasons for not wanting to carry it is market driven or belief driven.
Immie
If they have to pay $1000/dose and can only sell it for $4 then they sure as hell are paying for it even if they don't own the pharmacy their salaries are going to be reduced by some amount for the loss to their employer.
I assume that by your statements you also believe that a Catholic OB/GYN must also perform abortions, after all, abortions are legal in this country.
Immie