Comments on: Wal-Mart and the morning after pill update

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:38:54 +0000

Curtis:

“It would be really cool if Walmart simply closed”

If you ended the statement there, I’d totally be with you.

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:38:09 +0000

Curtis:

Suppose an anti-gun person gets a job as a cashier at Wal-Mart. Does that cashier have the right to “follow their conscience” and refuse to scan ammunition? Actually, yes they do, but that will probably cost them their job. So their right boils down to, if you don’t want to scan ammo, don’t work at a place that sells it. I don’t see how it should be any different for a pharmacist. If you oppose dispensing certain approved medications, then don’t be a pharmacist.

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By: Curtis Stone

Curtis Stone — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:14:02 +0000

I agree with you that it’s the law and, as such, will be enforced.

It’s pretty sad that it IS a law…don’t professional pharmacists have a right to follow their conscience? Are all doctors required to perform abortion on demand? What’s the difference?

It would be really cool if Walmart simply closed all their pharmacies in the two totalitarian societies that have such a tyrranical rule. They won’t though. Profit motive and all that.

“Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.”
— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

By: _Jon

_Jon — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:21:10 +0000

It’s the law.
If the citizens don’t like a law that requires all licensed pharmacies to carry all “commonly prescribed medicines”, then they should work to have that law changed.

The obsessions with the relation to birth control / abortion makes it seem…. obsessed.