CVS pharmacist in RI refuses to fill prescription for morning after pill

[SillyGoose]

BY BARBARA POLICHETTI
Journal Staff Writer

CVS pharmacists, acting on their religious or moral beliefs, can refuse to fill contraceptive prescriptions as long as they make sure the customer can get the medication when another pharmacist is on duty or at another CVS store, company officials said yesterday.

"Our policy is to fill prescriptions for all customers in a timely manner and to make sure their needs are met and that they are satisfied," Eileen Howard Dunn, vice president of corporate communications and community relations for CVS, said yesterday. "As an employer, however, we must also accommodate a sincerely held religious conviction that may prevent a pharmacist from dispensing a certain prescription."

Dunn's remarks came in response to media reports of a woman who was temporarily denied the "morning-after" contraceptive pill at the CVS pharmacy on Tiogue Avenue in Coventry last Friday.

Dunn, who declined to identify either the patron or the pharmacist, said that the customer pulled up to the store's drive-up window at about 10 p.m. The pharmacist on duty at the 24-hour store refused to fill the prescription because it conflicted with his or her personal beliefs, Dunn said.

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Unbelieveable. :grr: CVS will be getting a letter from me.

[chelsea0011]

1. State should pull his/her license...They broke an agreement, I think

[SillyGoose]

5. State pharmaceutical board is investigating this. n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Time to find a new pharmacy

[Bunny]

3. What if a pharmacist had a religious objection to filling

prescriptions for boner pills?

[SillyGoose]

7. Funny how they never mention that.

God forbid we restrict viagra...why, it would be unconstitutional I tell ya.

[Marnieworld]

4. Damn! I thought that they were ok

I know Walgreens is content with pharmacists doing this but I thought CVS was not. Jeez! Where do we go if we want to protest?

[SillyGoose]

6. I did, too. I knew about Walgreen's but thought CVS was alright.

here's the contact info if you want to contact them -

this is the spokesperson quoted in the article:
Eileen Dunn
VP, Corporate Communications & Community Relations
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[e-mail]

this is from the website:

Customer Service Contacts
For customer service issues, please use the following contact information to get the most immediate response:

Store Service
Phone: 1-800-SHOP-CVS
[e-mail]

CVS.com Service
Phone: [phone]
[e-mail]

[ismnotwasm]

8. Thank you

Emails are sent. I am starting to get really, really angry over this particular topic.

[meg]

9. I have used CVS, but will never do so again

I told Ms. Dunn that I had used a particular CVS store and gave her the name of the new store I would be using from now on.

[wli]

10. boycott cvs

[DemGirl7]

11. I have to tell my sister...CVS is where she goes

I told her a month ago about how certain fundie pharmacists are deining people birth control pills, and she almost flipped out. I told her a week how it certain drugstores have it their policy to allow their pharmarcists to do this Bullshit, and she flipped out. Now she's really going to flip out when she hears that CVS is doing this, and even in the area of the country she lives in, she lives in the CT, the state right next to RI.

This stuff is F@#$&!* BULL!! This is shameful when a woman can't get birth control pills, in a so call free country because of some god damn Fundies. These Fundies need to stop messing with others'lives. Last time I checked this country wasn't supposed to be a Theocracy!!!!:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: