Fed Judge: No Plan B for You!

[Amraam]

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Now if I believed that stuff as much as I know Pitt Sucks....I could totally see me refusing to give out Plan B. Walking a mile in the shoes of another and what not. So let the pharmacists do whatever they want, let the patients do whatever they want. The only place where I could see something go awry is in the rare, rare instance in which a person is in a location where there is only one pharmacy in a 500 mile radius. But that's just the exception....in any other case, the patient could just go elsewhere. Is it really the patient's right to infringe on the rights of another person to uphold their beliefs?

The problem is that A Lot of people see us a dispensing machines, that if you refuse to dispense something in stock, your in the wrong profession. They want to have laws to force you to dispense because they do not see Pharmacy practice as a profession.

 

[Amraam]

I'm torn on the issue.

On one hand I find it infuriating to know that someone can decide to refuse to dispense me a legitimate medication based on the unproven possibility that it might prevent implantation of a fertilized egg. This would be a different ball game if there was definitive evidence supporting that this was one of the mechanism of action.

On the other hand I can respect someone's belief in their immortal soul and not wanting to condemn themselves to hell on the crap shoot of maybe this drug works by preventing implantation.

Still I think before entering a career (especially in the situation where now we know Plan B is on the market, we know it's OTC and we may have someone request us to dispense it) you have to consider your beliefs and whether they'll be in conflict with a certain career. Take a little personal responsibility and not put your soul in harm's way. Obviously this sentiment doesn't apply to those who never imagined facing this conflict with Plan B and entered the field previously not knowing this would eventually happen.

Just have a pop machine dispenser out back I guess.

 

[Amraam]

I'm not intolerate to crazy christian wackos, I just think they should not be working in a position where they encounter people that have different beliefs and then force their beliefs on to those people by not giving them access to certain legal meds. They can work at insurance companies or hospitals or many other places where plan B and BC will never come up.

The worst kind of force belief is when the state takes away your autonomy. When statue and politicans laws starts to do the moral thinking for you we will be in serious trouble as a nation, unless you like to be forced to act in way at the point of a gun. Making something simply legal does not nessesarily make it right.

Besides, laws like this are unconsitutional.