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Re: A new wrinkle...
by DoctorJ

Uhhh, in your example the gov't would be the Nat'l Guard helping the woman get her plan B meds from the obstructionist pharmacist blocking the door that holds the meds. So I completely don't get your example, since it makes absolutely no sense. Unless you're saying you agree that the gov't should be doing everything in their powers to make Pharmacists for Life look like that idiot governor trying to block the doors, or the racists protestors screaming obscenities at scared students just trying to go to school and not get killed.

The point I was trying to make is I DON'T CARE what a pharmacists' views are on ANYTHING, whether it's religion, politics, race relations, butter v margarine, tastes great v less filling. I don't go to a pharmacist to talk to them. I go so that the prescription my Dr wrote for me, for whatever purpose that is, can be filled. Period. And I don't see how the pharmacists personal views have anything to do with filling my prescription, whatever it is. If he won't give me my plan B (well, he shouldn't give me plan B), my Viagra/Cialis, my methadone, my oxycontin etc, that my doctor thought was necessary for my health, then I want him reprimanded/fired for failure to do his job.

In what other professions can someone's personal views be protected from not only allowing them to fulfill their professional obligations, but causing actual physical harm to others that they are denying? And how self-centered are the pharmacists who decide that THEY are God, judge and jury in deciding how other people should live?

I've decided that I am going to retrain and become an EMT. But I'll only save those who answer a few simple questions correctly because I only want to save those who I think are worthy of saving. If people suffer permanent injuries or death, that's not my fault because they could have found another more accommodating EMT, they didn't have to call me. Or maybe I'll go to med school and become a prison doctor, so I can most efficiently deny treatment to anyone I deem is unworthy of being helped. Society will thank me in the long run, and I shouldn't face any legal ramifications because I'm just exercising my right to stay consistent with my morals, which is protected in the Constitution, uhhh, somewhere I've been told...

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