Michigan Votes Forum

I am a Catholic Pharmacist and I do not dispense Emergency Contraceptives.  I do not want the government to force me to go against my religious beliefs.  What happened to freedom of religion?   Please do not pass this bill.  I worked hard for my license and I do not want to kill babies to keep it.

It is not the pharmacist decision to make, it is the decision of the person legally purchasing the emergency contraceptives.

We're talking here about "conscientious objector" situations.  The pharmacist has the right (justifiably so) to have his/her moral conscience protected.  After all, the pharmacist is asked to violate his/her conscience.  To attempt to force them to act against their conscience is totally unwarranted.  

The pharmacist doesn't have the "right" to not do his or her job. The pharmacist has the "right" to not be a pharmacist.

I agree 100% with gypsy.  Medications are at the discretion of me and my doctor ONLY - no one else.    A pharmacist's job is to dispense only.  As such, the pharmacist has limited information about why that med was prescribed.    Allowing a pharmacist to pick and choose what medications to dispense, based solely on personal opinion/beliefs is wrong on so many levels. 

The next pharmacist could refuse to fill an anti-depressant or Viagra medication or anything else for any reason.   Imagine the worst case scenario if someone in the midst of a major depressive episode is denied their medication, judged for needing it in front of other strangers also at that pharmafcy, or made to jump through hoops, driving all over town, to get what is needed.....I could go on with this example, but I think (I hope!) you get the point. 

Stop judging other people.  Your religion has no place in a pharmacy.

OUR religion has a place in everything!

Your religion is your religion, not our religion.

This isn't about religion, it's about liberty.  There are plenty of pharmacists who will fill the prescription--what's next, forcing nurses to euthanize old people in nursing homes?  You have to understand that for some pharmacists, it's exactly the same thing.  This bill may be forcing people to participate in a murder--after all, neither pro-abortionists or their adversaries can prove exactly when life begins.   Sure, convenience is nice, but shouldn't there be a law that protects someone from being forced to commit a crime?

If this were a video store, should the owner be forced to offer religious movies/porn/whatever if he didn't want to?  Wouldn't that violate HIS rights as a small businessman?  What about the pharmacist?

  And by the way, the argument that some poor woman will have to drive all over town searching in vain for a pharmacist is just silly.  They can't call first to check?

gypsy:

It is not the pharmacist decision to make, it is the decision of the person legally purchasing the emergency contraceptives.

Really?  They why don't we just get vending machines . . .

publis:

gypsy:

It is not the pharmacist decision to make, it is the decision of the person legally purchasing the emergency contraceptives.

Really?  They why don't we just get vending machines . . .

 

I'll bet these same people don't have a problem with Viagra or Cialis.