Pharmacy Board Heeds Gregoire's Emergency Contraception

[spindrifter]

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August 31, 2006
By Associated Press

KENT - Druggists' personal objections should not stand in the way of a patient seeking emergency contraception, state pharmacy regulators decided Thursday.

The decision is a reversal for the state Board of Pharmacy, which has been in a political tug-of-war since it declared pharmacists might be able to deny prescriptions for personal reasons.

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C.J. Kahler, a Sammamish pharmacist and former state pharmacy association president, said druggists' rights to religious freedom should shield them from dispensing the pill if they oppose it.

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Thursday's compromise rule declares that pharmacists "have a duty to dispense lawfully prescribed ... drugs or devices." The measure lists exceptions, but a druggist's personal beliefs are not included.

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[upi402]

1. Glad the rightists couldn't rob her election win

:toast:

[Sydnie]

2. This needs to be done nationally too

This issue rubs me like sand paper. I am glad to see that there is a place in this country addressing it as it should be addressed. Don't want to dispense legally prescribed medications? Get another job.

[KT2000]

3. An alternative

If pharmacists want to pick and choose which prescriptions they will dispense, there could be a state law the requires that a pharmacy staff with enough pharmacists that will cover the dispensing of all pharmaceuticals at all times the pharmacy is open.
I wonder how many picky choosy pharmcists would get jobs anywhere.

[Raffi Ella]

4. WOW

Seperation of Church & State prevailed.Why am I relieved?The fact this is even issue disturbes the living hell out of me.

Get another motherfucking job if you have a problem with seperation of Church & State assholes.This is America not Taliban controlled Afghanistan.

[Erika]

5. Pharmacies should advertise "Women who are raped, tough"

Bare the child and live with it. No Plan B sold here.

Their business would fall dramatically.

[niyad]

6. I started contacting pharmacies in my neighborhood, telling them I expect

them to be stocking plan b immediately. will be on the phone tomorrow with the headquarters of the supermarkets and the major pharmacies telling them the same thing, and my intention to boycott if they do not.

[seabeyond]

8. i have talked to pharmacists if they will have conflict between

their job and religion. it makes them all uncomfortable. i tell them i respect it may be something personal they wish to not share with strangers, but today the way things are, .... tough shit. if you want my money, you have to convince me you will provide for the needs my doctor prescribes to me

[spindrifter]

10. Great move!

[seabeyond]

7. easy argument i tell my catholic friends. those opposed should find a

different job. if handing a woman contraception or morning after pill because of religious belief,they cannot do their job and should find employment elsewhere that doesnt offend their religion.

my friends always say no way, it is their right, that they should be allowed to deny selling

no i say. it is not mine to sacrifice for anothers religion. it is the person that has the faith to sacrifice. if they dont have to sacrifice in the name of religion and they are making the non believers sacrifice for them, because of their belief then they are hypocrits. they are not being true to religion. if it opposes their religion it is theirs to sacrifice the job and go elsewhere more in line to their religion. not force all of us to live by their religious beliefs

[WinkyDink]

9. A job takes precedence over one's personal beliefs of any kind,

simply because the applying for said job is VOLUNTARY.

I was a teacher. Do you think I could NOT lead my homeroom in the Pledge of Allegiance? Think again. The most I could do as a Leftie was not insist that the students said it.

What disturbs me the absolute most, in these types of "Christian Rights" situations, is the utter incapability of these theocrats of grasping why their religious beliefs are called "FAITH" and not "FACT" (aka "science").

[petronius]

11. But can't you use that "voluntary" argument against things

like workplace safety regulations and minimum wage? E.g., one could argue that we don't need a minimum wage because if the pay is too low people can choose not to take the job. Or, people are voluntarily working in a given factory, so they've accepted the safety (or lack thereof) of the conditions.

Not saying I don't agree with you on Plan B, just that I don't think the argument in your first sentence really flies...