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 Walgreens Allows Pharmacists To Not Dispense Drugs They Object To Author: WISN 12 News Source: Milwaukee Channel.com (WI) Title: PHARMACIST REFUSES TO FILL PRESCRIPTIONS FOR MORAL REASONS   A WISN 12 News investigation has discovered that a Milwaukee-area pharmacist has refused to fill prescriptions for women citing religious reasons.A Milwaukee mother of six walked into a north side Walgreens with a prescription for the so-called morning after pill. "Financially, I wouldn't be able to afford having another child," Jane Doe said. But the pharmacist refused to fill her prescription. "She just told me that she will not fill it. That she's Catholic, and it's murder," Doe said. Then, she said, before a crowded waiting area, the pharmacist berated her. Walgreens policy allows pharmacists to refuse to dispense drugs they object to. "If a pharmacist does refuse, we require the pharmacist to pass the prescription on to another pharmacist at that location, or to another pharmacy," a Walgreens spokesman told 12 News. | |
| Community Thoughts: There are 27 comments posted | Reverse Sort |
| Not The Same At All | May 6th. at 9:49:06 pm EDT |
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Susan (Mayer, Arizona) - Email Me I would like to point out that her job is not to eat pork, it is to fill prescriptions. She is working for a secular company that serves a public clientele, not a religious organization. She is not entitled to refuse to do her job; I'm not allowed to refuse as a paramedic or as a nursing student to care for the people I come into contact with regardless of my views on them, religiously or personally. I just do my job and leave the judging to God/ess. Isn't that what THEIR holy book says to do anyway--judge not lest you be judged, and in the same measure as you pass so it will be passed on you (or something really close) ? I think she's in deep doodoo anyway. Now, because of her refusal to fill a prescription she has an outright murder (in her religious beliefs) on her conscience rather than the mere shedding of an unimplanted zygote. Which happens to an estimated 25% of all fertilized eggs, anyway, without the mother or anyone else even being aware of it. It's not a pregnancy until it actually implants. |
| Well... | May 6th. at 5:49:16 pm EDT |
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kabuk1 (Norman, Oklahoma) - Email Me If a religious pharmacist won't fill your script, take it to another one. Would you force a muslim to eat pork, or a Pagan to go to church? I didn't think so, so don't expect a Christian to do something that's against their religious beliefs either. |
| Wal-Mart | May 6th. at 3:51:44 pm EDT |
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Erihu (Sunset Beach, North Carolina) - Email Me When I signed an online petition against allowing Pharmacists to refuse to fill scrips for Morning After and BC Pills, I got a form letter telling me that Wal-Mart doesn't carry the EC. The letter also stated that their Pharmacists could choose not to fill for BC, but had to either get another Pharmacist in the store to do it, or send the scrip to another Pharmacy. I live in an area that is very small, but there are at least 5 Phamacies within driving distance, and two within walking. I've lived in small towns (villages would actually describe some of them better) , and have always had at least two choices within walking distance, however I'm sure some people don't have as many options. I'm at a loss as to why the pharmacists couldn't have just said so. At any rate, I've emailed Walgreens and told them that I and my family would be boycotting their store until this stops. Also, that I was encouraging everyone I know to do the same. I've never gotten scrips from them, as they don't take my insurance, but used to go in for other things. Not anymore. |
| Hope This Doesn't Happen Here | May 6th. at 7:56:46 am EDT |
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Airmid (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) - Email Me Walgreen's is the only pharmacy in our town that carries E.C. , other than the college health center. And right now, the state is trying to ban it from campus. So, if a woman in our town needs is, but the one pharmacist on duty at Walgreen's doesn't feel like filling it, I guess she's really S.O.L. |
| Freedom | May 6th. at 4:11:08 am EDT |
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David Eagan (Cleveland, Wisconsin) - Email Me Yes the pharmacist is free to refuse to fill the subscription and they are also free to loose their jobs. I for one will not be going to Walgreens for my perscriptions until they change their policy. |
| Am I Wrong On This | May 6th. at 3:05:44 am EDT |
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Shan (Believe, California) - Email Me I'm sorry; but the sperm that a man sends to the female egg is millions of live cells Right? so why is it that women are the ones who are evil or murderers? millions of sperm have to swim to find the egg and enter it. That is millions of live cells, if you consider a cell that has to swim upstream to beat out millions of others and find a way inside of a nice warm egg to attach too ~ to create a fertilized egg. so maybe its time for these so called pro-lifers to be berating themselves or other men for killing millions upon millions, possibly trillions of sperm for the simple reason of pleasure...maybe it's time for women to stand up for ourselves against the thousands of years of guilt that isn't only ours to bear. shan |
| Policy Change | May 5th. at 11:06:02 pm EDT |
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Jed (Bakersfield, California) - Email Me I can see a policy of passing the prescription to another pharmacist if you object to filling a prescription but the policy should allow that should there be no other pharmacist available that they are required to fill the prescription. The preaching the person received was not acceptable though. |
| She Should Be Fired! | May 5th. at 10:46:10 pm EDT |
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me Fortunately there are other pharmacies in the area. Guess I'll be using them even though I'll have to drive further if there is any fears that I won't get the medications I need from now on. I believe that she should get fired for that little lecture as she had no right not to fill that prescription. Apparently it did little to stop what she intended to stop in the first place by that nasty little lecture. I'm very sorry the woman had to go through that. |
| Welcome To Hell, Indeed... | May 5th. at 10:32:41 pm EDT |
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Istari (Hazel Park, Michigan) - Email Me I won't be shopping there any more either! I shall take my little Heathen self elsewhere. Walgreens was my favorite of all the drug stores, but no more... |
| A Copy Of The Letter I Mailed To Walgreen's | May 5th. at 9:29:29 pm EDT |
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Susan (Mayer, Arizona) - Email Me Dear Sir/Madam: I am writing to inform you that I will no longer shop at any of your stores. I am only one person but my money is valuable to me as it represents time out of my life that I can never get back; therefore I will spend it elsewhere with a company that does not deny legal prescriptions, in whatever form, to women. I recently read an article detailing how one of your pharmacists refused to fill a prescription for a morning after pill to a woman who came in with a valid script. I take exception to this; a pharmacist's job is NOT to impose his or her religious beliefs on the clientele, it is to fill prescriptions written by a licensed physician. If that pharmacists feels that their religious beliefs are being violated by filling that prescription then perhaps he or she should consider changing careers. No one has ever questioned a man about whether his Viagra prescription is for making love to his wife or his girlfriend; I think it is hypocritical to say to a woman -- who may or may not be carrying a zygote at that point (which technically is NOT a pregnancy yet since it hasn't even implanted!) that she cannot have that prescription filled due to someone else's religious beliefs. Even if the script is held until a different pharmacist gets there it STILL places great stress on the woman waiting for it to be filled. Therefore, as I said at the beginning, I will no longer be shopping at any of your stores until you reverse this policy. I feel for those who have strong religious beliefs; however there are many Christian and Catholic hospitals in this country who would happily take on an employee such as this. You, however are a secular employer serving the needs of your public clientele and should not tolerate such behavior from your employees. Sincerely, ....... |
| Well | May 5th. at 9:03:52 pm EDT |
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Anna Bucci (Hendersonville, Florida) - Email Me I agree with their policy. A pharmacist doesn't have to fill a prescription, but they have to find someone who will. That idiot pharmacist should be fired for her actions. She humiliated a customer, and she failed to pass the prescription on to someone else. I find it horribly ironic that this anti-abortion pharmacist caused the lady to have an abortion for refusing to fill her prescription that would've prevented pregnancy. In cases where a town is small and has only one pharmacist, or all the pharmacists are against filling the prescription, I think the rule is one of them has to fill it anyway. They are only allowed to refuse when they can find someone else to fill it. |
| Where Do We Draw The Line? | May 5th. at 8:41:49 pm EDT |
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Aidan Odinson (Collingdale, Pennsylvania) - Email Me If the next-shift pharmacist is agreeable and it doesn't interrupt the patient's schedule, or if there was a pharmacist in the pharmacy down the street who had no problem, some would think that it might not be an issue. But what if all of the pharmacists in the store were of the same faith? What if we're talking about a smaller town where that "other pharmacy" is far enough away to be more theoretical than real? And where do we draw the line? There are some on the far-right fringe of Christianity who claim that AIDS is "God's punishment." Do they then get to decline to fill prescriptions for AIDS/HIV treatment because they see that disease as "God's justice"? Where do we draw the line? I'd say that the pharmacist has a choice - follow the doctor's instructions or go into another field. |
| Clash Of 13ths | May 5th. at 8:40:23 pm EDT |
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me "'You're a murderer. I will not help you kill this baby. I will not have the blood on my hands, '" Doe said. "I tried to explain to her that it's emergency contraceptives, that it's not an abortion pill. She then snatched the form from me, that the prescription was attached to, telling me the paper was full of lies, and she won't be a part of it. I was crying, shaking, upset, so embarrassed. I wanted to run out of the store and hope nobody else could get a good look at me." If the pharmacist intimidated the customer, or stole the prescription, then we're talking about grounds for Dismissal. (She's an RC, whose Missal is full of Dese Missionaries who've been Dismally Dismissed.) However, Specific Performance is a violation of the 13th Amendment, and forcing another to Bare is another violation. (Unless a jury finds that the pregnancy has resulted from a crime on the woman's part.) There's also the matter of what was said to a stressed out woman, and whether this was reasonably misconstrued. I don't think the RC Church is so much against the use of The Pill, as much as they recommend it for those who don't follow their teachings. Arawn |
| One Pharmacist/Religion Over Many Patients' | May 5th. at 8:32:29 pm EDT |
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karrie9 (Kenosha, Wisconsin) - Email Me Does a woman's body "murder" because it doesn't allow each and every fertilized egg to implant? If mere fertilization is an established "pregnancy" then women's bodies "murder" and pass dead "babies" far more than they know for not all fertilized eggs actually implant anyway. So, what's up with that? It's God's will because "that's nature?" Well, we're part of nature too, so what if we do it on purpose... as in make sure (morning after pill) the egg doesn't implant? Then it's murder? The whole problem started when they allowed a living idol -- the pope. He's the one who the-creed this. Notice the woman then, after being refused the morning after pill, had an abortion because she *became* (!) pregnant (who knows what happened, maybe the condom broke and she can't take the pill for whatever reasons, it's not my business nor am I her doctor, judge, or whatever) . Also, there is supposed to be something called "confidentiality" that is not to be breached and especially not in such a grievous hit-someone-over-the-head-with-religion-not-theirs manner. I'm sure this pharmacist now is on her best behavior because she's being watched now and finds herself at the center of controversy. After all, pharmacists like her at one of the religious war fronts in America. This pharmacist, as an individual, can make her religion rule in private decisions of how many patients? |
| Fine | May 5th. at 8:08:40 pm EDT |
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Rowan Foxfyre (Indianapolis, Indiana) - Email Me Then at this point I Refuse to do business with Walgreens for any reason. |
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