Pharmacists who refuse to fill RX should be personally legally liable

[NAO]

This post (Rape victim: 'Morning after' pill denied in Tucson Arizona http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5159346&mesg_id=5159346 ) got me really steamed, and thinking...

Pharmacists who refuse to fill an RX should have their license revoked, and they should be held LEGALLY liable PERSONALLY for any medical consequences that result from their refusal to do their job.

If that woman gets pregnant, she should be able to FORCE that fundie whack-job to PAY for her abortion out of HIS OWN pocket. Or, if SHE chooses, he should be ordered to pay CHILD SUPPORT for 18 years.

And I'd like to see whatever hate-filled loonie bin of a church he attends be named on a liability lawsuit too, for planting the idea in his head. You should not be able to suggest hurtful things without being held legally responsible for the consequences.

And if the Pharmacy he worked for does not terminate his employment, effective the INSTANT he refused to fill the prescription, they should be legally liable as well.

[noahmijo]

1. Yea especially when the whackjob RAPED her

Sorry to ruin your evening man.....:pals:

This is just a cut of what it's like out here in Az though, where even in Tucson which is known to be more of a liberal area of Arizona, still Republicans rule this city like they do the whole damn state. You read the article even though the gov did what she could to stop this sort of lunacy still the power of the dollar trumps the law.

[mestup]

2. Agree! What's next - pharmacists refusing to fill birth control? n/t

[tyedyeto]

3. It's been known to happen

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-08-druggists-pill_x.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5490-2005Mar27.html

These articles are about regular birth control, not emergency contraception.

I agree with the OP, make them liable. I used to live in a very small town where there was 1 pharmacy. The next closest one was over 30 miles away. Hard to go shopping around for another pharmacy when you live in an area like that.

[mestup]

7. Thanks for links. I had no idea! n/t

[NAO]

4. Scientologist Pharmacists refusing to fill anti-depressants, ADHD?

Would that fly? What if the patient committed suicide shortly after the RX was refused? Involuntary manslaughter?

[NAO]

6. How about a Jehovah's Witness as ER doc, refuses to give blood transfusion

and while he is explaining his religious beliefs, and how the (unconscious, bleeding to death) patient can go to another trauma center, the patient dies?

Would that be OK?

[Carolab]

5. "Conscience clauses". What a misnomer. n/t

[lies and propaganda]

8. um....ive been boycotting CVS

and am now with boycotting Target because I am a woman and not providing your customers with their bcp's is fucked....

Bust shouldnt a rape victim be able to be helped by her doctor? Should they prescribe the morning after pill? maybe im missing something, but it just seems like another case of people put their beliefs on me. How could a rape victim not be helped? proud to be american though, yep.

[Erika]

10. Yes! We all need to yell

We're more than receptacles of the man's offspring.

[Erika]

9. The fundies only think of women as vessels to carry the young

It doesn't matter if the woman (girl) is a victim of rape or incest, the hell with her life...she will be forced to deliver and ,of course, the man is always held harmless in the fundie/taliban world.

[NAO]

11. Radical Cleric James Dobson's hateful, degraging statements toward women

Dobson's Indoctrination Center, "Focus on the Family" issued this statement:

from this blog's discussion

....

And now we come to Leon's secondary point: women have no right to be as sexually active as men, because, um, it's just not right! Anyway, it's not what nature intended for them.


"But most young women strike me as sad, lonely, and confused; hoping for something more, they are not enjoying their hard-won sexual liberation as much as liberation theory says they should."

And if they aren't sad, lonely, and confused, then they damn well ought to be, the Jezebels!

....

"women chronically disappointed in the failure of men "to commit." For the first time in human history, mature women by the tens of thousands live the entire decade of their twenties — their most fertile years — neither in the homes of their fathers nor in the homes of their husbands; unprotected, lonely, and out of sync with their inborn nature."

In times past, mature women in their twenties lived under the protection of a man, and thus were in sync with their inborn nature to be a treated as inferior beings.

"Some women positively welcome this state of affairs, but most do not; resenting the personal price they pay for their worldly independence, they nevertheless try to put a good face on things and take refuge in work or feminist ideology."

Most women hate the fact that have to support themselves while they are in their twenties. They also hate it that they are allowed to have jobs, vote, and own property. They all wish that they could meet a man like Leon, who would rescue them from a life of independence and allow them to do what they were created for: have babies, cook meals, and mop floors (but only with the mop that their husbands have chosen for them).

much more....

this is all over the place, but I found it at DU, here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5158163&mesg_id=5158163

[NAO]

12. This strategy should be suggested to Planned Parenthood Legal

Possibly if the big chains' LEGAL departments were advising them to terminate RX-refusing pharmacists because they were exposing the store to $$ liability, they would be less huffy about their 'principals' and more likely to get tough on these morality crusaders.

[rucky]

13. Hey, where in the Bible does it say you have to help rape victims?

:sarcasm:

What seriously fucked up priorities.