Somebody at the Dallas Morning Snooze finally gets it right....

[fudge stripe cookays]

Requires registration-- sorry ya'll.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/columnists/all/stories/120104dnedimarkdavis.4bfa2.html

Mark Davis
The employer rules: Job policy trumps personal conviction

07:37 PM CST on Tuesday, November 30, 2004

By MARK DAVIS

Imagine a gun dealer refusing to sell a rifle to a hunter because animals should not be shot. Or a baby furniture dealer refusing to sell a crib to an expectant couple with five kids because their family is already too large.

Preposterous? Of course, but it's the kind of thing that has actually happened at some Texas pharmacies – and would continue under the protection of law if a curious wave of zeal is not squashed in Austin.

A bill authored by state Rep. Frank Corte, R-San Antonio, would protect pharmacists from professional repercussions if they refuse to fill prescriptions for "emergency contraceptives."

You might know them as "morning-after" pills, designed to prevent pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of sex. That creates an understandable objection among those who believe human procreation is not to be interfered with.....

[shoelace414]

1. awww.. and they turn off the right click

[reprehensor]

2. Back to Work!

;)

[Ilsa]

3. I wonder if the denying pharmacist would mind sending a

check every month for the expenses raising the baby.

[sui generis]

4. the problem is that the proposed legislation is even worse

they want to say any medical professional can refuse to serve anyone at all based on moral objections.

Yes, that means someone with the clap could be refused service at the local doc'n'box, or a woman or man with HIV or even a yeast infection could be refused service by a doctor, nurse, physician assistant, even the secretary at the clinic, and then at the pharmacy some smarmy tech could refuse to dispense medicine on the same grounds.

It's not theory - it's real in Louisiana.

[Larkspur]

5. As a child-free person, I'd love to do this to a Xtian Fundie baby machine

Or a baby furniture dealer refusing to sell a crib to an expectant couple with five kids because their family is already too large.

Hey, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

But the writer is correct, that the idea of people refusing to sell products or provide services because they morally object to something can get out of hand and will with the current bunch of fanatics in charge.

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. Childfree? Me too!

Put her there, sister.

How about getting a job at Chuck E. Cheese and refusing to dispense any tokens to their little brats?

Or refusing to dress up as a giant mouse because it interferes with a tenet of your religion, in which mice are considered unclean and evil?

We could have lots of fun with them as well if this wasn't so serious.
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[yellowdogintexas]

7. Mark Davis used to be in the Ft Worth paper, and 90% of the

time he is a total jerk. But there is the 10% when he really gets it right, and when it comes down to stuff like this he always nailed it everytime...

One of the few conserv columnists that I could scream at most of the time and then suddenly want to cut the column out and save it.

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. Yeah...when it said WBAP,

I was instantly suspicious, but sometimes even conservatives can see reason.

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