What year is this again?
Believe it or not phamacists are beginning to deny women birth-control pills at alarming rates because of their beliefs. Doesn't the Hipocratic Oath state that they are there for the sole pourpose of helping people including granting them the medicines that an accredited doctor perscribes. This shit really pisses me off! Check out this article:
Pharmacists’ rights at front of new debate Because of beliefs, some refuse to fill birth control prescriptions
By Rob Stein
The Washington Post
Updated: 11:12 p.m. ET March 27, 2005
Some pharmacists across the country are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills, saying that dispensing the medications violates their personal moral or religious beliefs.
The trend has opened a new front in the nation's battle over reproductive rights, sparking an intense debate over the competing rights of pharmacists to refuse to participate in something they consider repugnant and a woman's right to get medications her doctor has prescribed. It has also triggered pitched political battles in statehouses across the nation as politicians seek to pass laws either to protect pharmacists from being penalized — or force them to carry out their duties.
The rest of the article is here.
Pharmacists’ rights at front of new debate Because of beliefs, some refuse to fill birth control prescriptions
By Rob Stein
The Washington Post
Updated: 11:12 p.m. ET March 27, 2005
Some pharmacists across the country are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills, saying that dispensing the medications violates their personal moral or religious beliefs.
The trend has opened a new front in the nation's battle over reproductive rights, sparking an intense debate over the competing rights of pharmacists to refuse to participate in something they consider repugnant and a woman's right to get medications her doctor has prescribed. It has also triggered pitched political battles in statehouses across the nation as politicians seek to pass laws either to protect pharmacists from being penalized — or force them to carry out their duties.
The rest of the article is here.
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