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apocalypsosNEW 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.
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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Date: 2004-09-18 06:14 pm (UTC)No. This man is as bad as the rapist. We have a woman who was violated. She wants to make sure that she is not trapped with the child of that union. Even if you support the argument (which I don't)that a medical person has the right to dent treatment, Mr. Herr could be sentencing the rape victim to bear a child that will ALWAYS, remind her of the rape.
THAT IS A CRIME OF A MAGNITUDE SIMILAR TO THE RAPE. A moral stand is something YOU do to take a stand. It is NOT punishing someone else for your beliefs.
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Date: 2004-09-18 06:31 pm (UTC)Very well said.
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Date: 2004-09-18 07:33 pm (UTC)This man is as bad as the rapist.
I feel that you're trying to qualify two incidents that should not and cannot be qualified (or quantified, if looking at your comment on magnitude). Rape is an act which occurs in the absence of morals, and I don't believe that to be the case with Gene Herr; quite the opposite, in fact, with more complex issues at stake. Whether you view his actions to be criminal is your opinion, obviously, be at least let it stand on its own.
By the way, as far as comparisons go, it is my opinion that murder is a worse crime than rape, but I realize that not many people here agree that abortion is murder, and arguing about that won't get us anywhere.
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Date: 2004-09-18 08:55 pm (UTC)I think that whether or not murder is worse than rape depends on how much damage the rape does to that particular victim. I know people who have been raped and have learned to let go and move on, forgiving their attackers and being able to get their quality of life back to being somewhat normal.
There are others who don't and aren't able to recover as quickly or as thoroughly and their quality of life is as diminished as if the assailant had killed them.
I've never been in Herr's position where I had to consider if something I'd be doing for my job would conflict with my moral beliefs. I do know that if I did find myself in that kind of job, I'd quit. Maybe Herr needs to work for a privately-owned pharmacy, hmm?
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Date: 2004-09-18 11:14 pm (UTC)I would disagree. In both cases, we have person A inflicting their morals on person B. In the first case, person A feels theire sexual urge is more important than person B's right to consent or not. In the second case, we have person A deciding whether person B should forever remember a violation which happened to them, and which they will have to live with for the rest of their lives.
I think rape is equal to murder, as in rape, the victim is violated, and may never recover, trust, or be able to have a normal life.