Comments | kat_chan: One of the more annoying things about Ohio

kat_chan

One of the more annoying things about Ohio

Jan 17, 2007 13:53

So, this story is just aggravating. I'd heard a little bit about it on the local NPR station while I was driving in to work yesterday. People who do this should have their licenses stripped. You have no right, as a person performing a state function (dispensing of legal medication) to force your morality onto me. What's next? A Christian ( Read more... )

idiots, ohio, religion, politics

Comments 9

moominmuppet January 17 2007, 19:27:02 UTC

The link doesn't work for me -- is this about the pharmacist that denied EC?

kat_chan January 19 2007, 04:31:37 UTC

Yes, it was. The Wal*Mart in Springfield.

The link had been working when I posted it. I guess the links for the Dayton Daily News go bad after a while.

zelest January 17 2007, 20:13:20 UTC

The link won't work for me either =/

kat_chan January 19 2007, 04:55:04 UTC

Okay, I fixed the link, and put the text of the article behind a cut as well.

joisbishmyoga January 17 2007, 20:44:17 UTC

There are pharmacists who won't fill birth control prescriptions for religious reasons. (Had I encountered any, I would've gone into a very LOUD rant about how mine is for my sleep disorder, tyvm.)

kat_chan January 19 2007, 04:58:37 UTC

Not that they'd care. Just as they don't care about allowing the distribution of condoms to save lives by preventing STDs. They only care about the potential life that the pills may prevent, not the actual living and breathing lives that are affected by things like HPV, unwanted pregnancies, AIDS, syphillis, etc. are of any concern to them.

tenko959 January 18 2007, 01:24:03 UTC

I'm waiting for one to refuse to give out antibiotics because its God's plan for your five year old kid to have an ear infection and to keep you up all night.

thenodrin January 18 2007, 18:27:36 UTC

Broken links make me sad. :-(

Anyway, does anyone remember a few months or more ago that a religious group was trying to stop the sale of a drug that could prevent certain kinds of cervical cancer? They were doing so on the grounds that the drug also worked as a contraceptive, and therefore (supposedly) encouraged sexual behaviour?

Seeing the TV commercials for this particular drug makes me happy, because it is proof that the religious nuts don't always get their way.

Theno

kat_chan January 19 2007, 05:02:50 UTC

The link is repaired, but only good until Monday. The text of the article is also behind a cut. And the story may have been in the Dispatch as well.

I think you're thinking of the HPV vaccine that you're talking about, that the religious folks were trying to block, even though it would help to prevent certain types of cervical cancer. It's not that it worked as a contraceptive, but instead that it would encourage sexual behaviour by removing a risk involved in sex.

The religious nuts are so aggravating. They held up that vaccine for a couple of years with their lobbying of the FDA. But, finally, reason won out.