If you get the prescription for them from a woman's clinic that happens to also perform abortions. This is getting a tad ridiculous, don't you think? I can't imagine a more asinine situation, I really can't.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The minute a pharmacist starts thinking they can refuse to give someone drugs because of their own moral beliefs is the moment that pharmacist needs to resign from that job. If your job MAKES IT A REQUIREMENT TO DO SOMETHING YOU CONSIDER WRONG, you need to fucking get a new job. You can refuse to do your job duties because God told you to. So sorry, but that's not going to fly ANYWHERE else. It's a crock of bullshit, and it makes me want to scream.
I'm rendered mute right now by my anger at the situation. I'm sure that if I tried really hard, I could think of other things to say about this, but all I'm coming up with is: VITAMINS? I MEAN, REALLY. VITAMINS?
(Also, you know what I'd like to know? How many of these jerks are women? How many pharmacists who are refusing prescriptions for birth control are women? I'm not making any assumptions right now, but I'd just be interested in seeing the numbers. Is this an actual pro-life situation, or is this a bunch of men trying to punish those evil women who have sex?)
I stumbled on your blog today and I just wanted to explain another side. Although I agree that this whole issue of pharmacists refusing on moral grounds is, well, absurd, there is a reason why pharmacists are able to refuse to fill rxs. I used to work for Rite Aid and I encountered a situation where a man had an rx for liquid Vicodin that he had filled every other day. Normally, that bottle would last a month. Now, the doctor would call in the rx and approve for it to be filled that often. A person could argue that maybe this man DID need vicodin every other day, but most likely, this man was completely addicted. And yes, you could also argue that if this man died from a drug overdose, it would be the doctor's problem, but ALSO it is the pharmacist's problem. In the situation where this would go to court, the pharmacist could also be blamed for not catching the frequency of refills. Pharmacies have checks in their system that notify them of a situation where a patient is taking a lethal combination of drugs.
Also, when I worked at Rite Aid the computer used to throw a red flag if a woman was on birth control and pre-natal vitamins but it was always overridden. We used to laugh about it but it's not so funny anymore...
Posted by: Diana | April 14, 2006 at 03:32 PM