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NEW YORK (AP) -- In Congress and states nationwide, anti-abortion activists are broadening efforts to support hospitals, doctors and pharmacists who -- citing moral grounds -- want to opt out of services linked to abortion and emergency contraception.

A couple of thoughts on a few lines from this article ...

Pharmacist Gene Herr was fired by Eckerd's Drugs after he refused to fill a prescription for a rape victim seeking emergency contraception. -- This man is an asshole. Enough said.

"More people, including pharmacists, are becoming informed how certain drugs operate -- and those who want to avoid ending the life of a human being would avoid those drugs," she said. -- You dumb son of a bitch, every drug can end a human life, a walking talking human being who can walk right up to you, get a prescription for painkillers, then go home and swallow the whole fucking bottle.

You know what? If your moral or religious beliefs get in the way of doing your job, then you shouldn't be doing it. It's not that hard a concept.

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[fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com]

If your moral or religious beliefs get in the way of doing your job, then you shouldn't be doing it. It's not that hard a concept.

On the one hand, I always like to applaud someone standing up for what they believe in.

On the other hand, I'd like to smack them with several large mallets.

My brilliant solution: let them all work together at clinics/pharmacies/whatever that do not prescribe those drugs/provide those services.

And then everyone who wants them can just not go there and they will know to avoid them.




But I still like the mallet idea.

[fireberry.livejournal.com]

I agree wholeheartedly with your idea. A nice big anti-abortion pharmacy for all those people that have moral objections. I however, will be going somewhere else. What pisses me off is that these people refuse to dispense birth control. Birth control is not always used for preventing pregnancy. I have a friend that's been dating her boyfriend for over 2 years, is actually engaged to him, is 21, in college, and is a virgin. She also has endometriosis. That stuff's painful! And birth control is used to treat it. How are these people right to deny her a treatment to something that painful? (well, that's a technicality, her insurance doesn't cover birth control so she's stuck taking up to 8 Tylenol everytime she's in pain) I'm going to be a pharmacist and I fully intend to not be a dickwad. I can't wait.

[matildarose.livejournal.com]

That's what gets me. After having a very large fibroid tumor removed a couple of years ago (I was 19), I was placed on BC pills to make sure such a thing doesn't happen again.

Unless this sect of anti-abortion lackies are thinking of the rights of small pumpkin-sized tumors (real ones, no analogies here), I'm saying they're definitely full of BS.

My god, will someone think of the tumors?!