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Georgia Walmart Refuses to Fill Prescription for Miscarriage Patient
State law allows pharmacists to refuse a prescription if they feel it violates their personal beliefs.
By Zaid Jilani / AlterNet
April 14, 2015
In Milledgeville, Georgia, Brittany Cartrett recently was informed by her doctor of something no expecting mother wanted to hear: she had miscarried early in her pregnancy, about four or five weeks in. Her doctor called a Walmart in Milledgeville asking that it provide Cartrett with a medication that would help her pass naturally.
The problem is, the Walmart refused to offer the prescription. “So we found another place to fill it but I still had to go up there to get another prescription so when I went up there she asked if I had any questions about this prescription. I said no, I don't, but I do have a question about the other one. And she looks at my name and she says, oh, well...I couldn't think of a valid reason why you would need this prescription,” said Cartrett.
The drug is Misoprostol, which can be used to induce an abortion (though it was not being used for that in this case).
Georgia law has for the past 15 years allowed pharmacists to refuse to prescribe certain drugs if they feel it violates their personal beliefs.
So now, treating illness against personal beliefs?
WTH do these people think they are to go against the patient's doctor's orders? http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-po...refuses-fill-prescription-miscarriage-patient
State law allows pharmacists to refuse a prescription if they feel it violates their personal beliefs.
By Zaid Jilani / AlterNet
April 14, 2015
In Milledgeville, Georgia, Brittany Cartrett recently was informed by her doctor of something no expecting mother wanted to hear: she had miscarried early in her pregnancy, about four or five weeks in. Her doctor called a Walmart in Milledgeville asking that it provide Cartrett with a medication that would help her pass naturally.
The problem is, the Walmart refused to offer the prescription. “So we found another place to fill it but I still had to go up there to get another prescription so when I went up there she asked if I had any questions about this prescription. I said no, I don't, but I do have a question about the other one. And she looks at my name and she says, oh, well...I couldn't think of a valid reason why you would need this prescription,” said Cartrett.
The drug is Misoprostol, which can be used to induce an abortion (though it was not being used for that in this case).
Georgia law has for the past 15 years allowed pharmacists to refuse to prescribe certain drugs if they feel it violates their personal beliefs.
So now, treating illness against personal beliefs?
WTH do these people think they are to go against the patient's doctor's orders? http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-po...refuses-fill-prescription-miscarriage-patient