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Like duh. Why would any pharmacy want a pharmacist unless it was to fill prescriptions? It would be like hiring a cook who won't prepare meals. On the payroll for their title only? Methinks not.

Yosemite,

Got any coffee?

If it is against a pharmacists beliefs then they should find another profession, and like others before me have mentioned-why no concerns over viagra.

It's funny how some men seem to think the day after pill is evil, but Viagra is GRREEAAATT!!
Hmm....sounds like the typical blind-sided male dominated bullienshitzer that runs rampant amongst folks these days....
Keep your laws off my body! and for pete's sake...stop whining and just do your darn job...
If it's that much of a moral dilema, quit the three figure salary job and serve the Lord as a minister...I hear some of them do real well for themselves too.

Well said Liz! It's a service profession...why is that so hard for people to understand?????

I believe pharmacists are liscensed by the state and are therefore subject to state regulations. I don't know if they are free to fill only the RX's they choose but they are regulated and are not free to do whatever they please.

"If it's that much of a moral dilema, quit the three figure salary job and serve the Lord as a minister...I hear some of them do real well for themselves too"

Yep. And the second they do that, you'll demand them to marry your gay cousin to his brother. If they don't want to do that, I guess you'll just tell them to find another job again.

Aahhh. Nothing like a little gay-bashing to support your argument, eh, Anonymous?

There's no need to pull up non-sequiturs into this discussion, you know. Stick with the issue at hand or write your own letter to the editor about how evil it would be to force a minister to marry gay couples. That'd go over real well, don't you think?

Mr. Produce, produce! Anybody heard from him?

Good point, Eric.

I know men can't multitask as well as women so I got confused in all the rhetoric. I, too, thought the subject was pharmacists.

Okay. So maybe I changed the subject a little bit. Didn't mean to be anonymous, just forgot to type my name.

So here's my point:

We are specifically talking about pharmacists. But the bigger picture here is the government (state regulators) dictating to people that they must do something new in their jobs that is against their religious beliefs. Is that what you support?

If so, then you'll have no legs to stand on if the government decides that you should pray to Allah 5 times a day at work, or that teachers should teach creationism, or that they must lead students in school prayer.

I don't think I'm changing the subject by expanding this reasoning to other subjects.

Let's see how fast you can change the subject back.

Bigmouth says:

We are specifically talking about pharmacists. But the bigger picture here is the government (state regulators) dictating to people that they must do something new in their jobs that is against their religious beliefs. Is that what you support?

Excuse my ignorance, but since when are contraceptive pill prescriptions "something new" in the world of pharmacies? These drugs have been around for over 50 years, yes?

The central point here is whether an employee at a pharmacy has the right to insert his/her moral code into the process of filling a prescription. As a matter of ethics, I don't think so. The only ethical obligation of a pharmacist is to distribute government-regulated drugs according to orders written by medically trained professionals, and to advise patients on their effects.

they should just sell it all over the counter and be done with it. i don't need no doctor to tell me i need viagra or anything else. just give me the drugs and let me decide what i wanna do with em. i could use some vicodin or percosette right now.

Eric says:

"The only ethical obligation of a pharmacist is to distribute government-regulated drugs according to orders written by medically trained professionals, and to advise patients on their effects."

Doctors don't have the authority to 'order' pharmacists to do anything. And pharmacists receive better medical training than doctors do when it comes to the use of drugs and their interactions with one another.

Sounds like a great society you're pushing there, though.

Do as your told. Don't ask questions. Who cares what you believe, just do it.

And if you ever have to explain your actions to a higher power, you can just say "Sorry boss, just following orders"

Is it possible that male pharmacists are morally filtering "the pill" with women in order to "feel them up?" Sounds like a wolf in sheep's clothing way to perform mental rape . . .

Thats what I'm talkin bout ms jackson. Pharmacists need to give us the drugs and STFU.
If they want to be part of the DEA, then they can go to DEA school.

Paul, calm down, read the entries, and insert some common sense. Prescriptions are typically called "orders". It doesn't mean that doctors are ordering anyone to do anything.

How do you get through the day without imploding or exploding every few seconds?

Please, Paul, calm down and read the thing.

"Orders" are a typical term for prescriptions. No one is ordering anyone to do anything. You really must use some common sense before you jump in like that.

How do you get through the day without imploding or exploding every few seconds?

Is there an echo in here? (stolen from Steve)

Lon, please calm down and read yourself. Paul hasn't even made a post here.

IF you were addressing me, I actually do implode and explode every few seconds. The people at the circus get a real kick out of it.

Sorry, Another Bigmouth, but the government has been "dictating" that certain professions do things which may be against their religious beliefs for some time now. For example, fair housing laws state that landlords cannot discriminate against a tenant or potential tenant based on their "familial status" which means people living together without benefit of marriage. Don't you think that maybe cohabitation goes against a few religions' beliefs? A leasing agent who refused to lease to an unmarried or a gay couple would probably be fired on the spot.

Can you explain what makes a pharmacist so much more sacred than the leasing agent in this instance? They have no right to refuse to fill any prescription unless they suspect illegal activity. Some of them are going as far as to destroy the prescription so that the woman can't take it elsewhere. That's just wrong and it should not be tolerated.

""Sorry, Another Bigmouth, but the government has been "dictating" that certain professions do things which may be against their religious beliefs for some time now. ""

Sounds similar to the reason people left Europe and came here, doesn't it?

Ripping someones prescription up is wrong and I totally disagree with that.

Heh. Have I got you worried, Lon? Now you're talking to me even when I'm not around. ;-)