Comments | zaph: I've written about this before, but there's another article on it, so...

zaph

I've written about this before, but there's another article on it, so...

Jul 31, 2008 11:44

this article in the Washington PostNo, I'm sorry, but this is FUCKING INSANE. If you have such serious objections to something that might be required in your job that you wouldn't want to do it, FIND ANOTHER JOB ( Read more... )

religion, politics

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Random question ryani July 31 2008, 18:40:16 UTC

Does your opinion change if it's the person's own pharmacy?

Re: Random question zaph July 31 2008, 18:58:18 UTC

Yes. As far as I'm concerned, that's simply a private business. Saying "Your pharmacy should provide birth control" would be the same as saying "Your restaurant should serve Coke instead of Pepsi."

But if the pharmacy stocks a particular product, an employee does NOT have the right to refuse to sell it to a customer.

And to solve the problem of the unsuspecting customer trying to fill a prescription for a non-fundie-approved product at a non-full-service pharmacy, there would be a sort of licensing process. A pharmacy with an FDA/HHS stamp would be guaranteed to provide access to certain products and services. One without it would be able to limit the availability of whatever they wanted, and would also not be held to the same drug safety regulations.

The slippery slope, though, in allowing such pharmacies to exist at all, is that in certain geographic regions, full-service pharmacies could potentially become extremely rare.

Re: Random question mokey4 July 31 2008, 20:40:17 UTC

I guess we already have that problem, because some pharmacies don't carry Plan B. But I think some public activism changed that in some places..

mokey4 July 31 2008, 20:42:13 UTC

What next? Force school districts to allow science teachers to "opt out" of teaching anything that goes against their creationist views? Goodbye, physics curriculum, hello Spaghetti Monster!

zaph July 31 2008, 20:46:13 UTC

I believe it's already been tried, sadly.

Of course, on the flip side, as more public school systems add fiction to their science curricula, what happens to the teacher who refuses to teach anything but evolution? Unfortunately, in order to be consistent with my own argument, I'd have to say that teacher wouldn't have an argument, as much as I hate the thought.