Can Pharmacists Refuse Care?

This is just appalling.

Conservative pharmacists are refusing birth control and emergency contraceptives to women with prescriptions from their doctors. If you can’t recommend and see a full range of options for a patient, YOU SHOULDN’T BE IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.

Does federal and state law require that objecting pharmacists be accommodated?

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March 30, 2005

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Gigamatt

March 30, 2005

Seems so… in Georgia
“Senate Bill 123 would protect from lawsuits or disciplinary action by employers any pharmacist who objects on moral or religious grounds to dispensing emergency contraceptives.”

and in Illinois, there’s a “conscience clause”

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Jake

March 31, 2005

I work at a pharmacy and we have refused in sending some meds before not because of our own moral judgement or personal beliefs. We’ve refused meds because we think that it would be detrimental to the patient’s health! i.e. They’re going to die from it.

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