# Pitting Fundie Pharmacists Who Won't Fill Birth-Control Prescriptions **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 28, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620 "2005-03-28T16:46:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/101 "2005-03-29T16:52:38Z")
> [@](#): > > And whatever you believe, you have NO RIGHT to force your decision on others. Got that? Exactly. Exactly. **Whatever** you believe - not just if you decide that abortion is a great idea. Even if you think abortion is morally wrong - no one has ANY RIGHT to force their decision on you. Got that? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/102 "2005-03-29T16:54:28Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Isn’t it odd how the 100% sacred and inviolable right of every person to make up his or her own mind about abortion suddenly gets lots less sacred the instant someone decides anything except “abortion is always a swell idea”? You must be in the wrong thread; this one is about birth control. ---
**Author:** ![Testy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@Testy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Testy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/103 "2005-03-29T17:00:13Z")
Are you missing something or do you just want to rant? If the latter, then go for it. If the former, then we’re discussing the ability of a pharmacist to arbitrarily deny filling a legal prescription. If this continues I can foresee Catholic pharmacies, Baptist pharmacies, and maybe some empty buildings labelled Jehovah’s Witness pharmacies. As far as your abortion rant goes, WTF is up with that? Nobody is asking a pharmacist to operate the suction machine or whatever. Testy ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/104 "2005-03-29T17:02:10Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Fuck you. This isn’t about someone making up his or her mind on abortion. Hell, this isn’t even about abortion, but birth control! And whatever you believe, you have NO RIGHT to force your decision on others. Got that? > > If you don’t like abortions, fine-don’t have one. If you don’t believe in birth control, don’t use it. But if you take a job where you KNOW you will be required to dispense birth control pills, condoms, etc, and you still refuse to sell them to people, then you are an ASSHOLE who deserves to be fired. > > Because it’s not about you-it’s about your patients and customers. And if you have a problem with that, then that’s just too goddamned bad! I respectfully disagree. If you believe that a fertilized egg is a human, then birth-control pills act as an abortafacient (sp?), and it is all about abortion. Now, if I, Joe Owner, opens Right-To-Life Drugs, and I don’t want to stock BC or rubbers, what gives you the right to make me. If I hire right to life pharmacists, I am happy with their work. If I open You Choose Pharmacy and sell BC, that’s fine too, and it is on me to hire pharmacists with a similar view. I should also be able to fire anybody not acting in a way that supports my policy. Now, it has been argued that Drs. that don’t prescribe BC pills are scum, just because they are supporting their own beliefs. OK, you have a right to that oppinion, and to not patronize that GYN. Now, does a DR. that does not support the death-penalty have a moral obligation to carry out a sentence on a condemmed murderer, or may that Dr. rely on his ethics to not perform a lethal injection? ---
**Author:** ![hiebram](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5fc32e/32.png) [@hiebram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hiebram)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/105 "2005-03-29T17:07:30Z")
> [@Testy](#): > > In the case of my example of being born into extreme poverty, the normal outcome of that situation would be that you _stay_ impoverished until you die. There are exceptions though. People who have worked and slaved and educated themselves out of that situation. > > Now, could these examples also be considered “sinful” based on the same logic used to condemn BC? These exceptional people, through hard work and intelligence, have changed the natural outcome of their situation on their own rather than allowing God to fix it or not at His pleasure. No, God never gave people a direct command to remain poor. In fact, there’s a “Health and Wealth” version of the gospel that emphasizes God’s desire to bless everyone. The problem of evil is probably outside the scope of this debate. OTOH, God did give Adam a direct [command](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:28;&version=31;) to procreate. So there’s the general thought that God wants people to prosper, and there’s the direct injunction to “be fruitful and multiply.” Hiebram ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/106 "2005-03-29T17:17:59Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > No, I got the point just fine. > > The point is that everyone should be free to make up their own mind about abortion, except if they decide against it. > Here’s the part where you contradict yourself. If I am a pharmacist, you claim that I **do** have to cause abortions whenever I am requested to do so. > > So I don’t really have much right to choose, do I? I can choose to assist in performing abortions, that’s fine. But I cannot refuse to do so. > > A choice with no opportunity to say no isn’t really a choice, wouldn’t you agree? It would be equivalent to some theoretical company saying, “Our health plan covers voluntary abortion, so feel free to get one if you want it. If you do, be aware that our policy will be to fire you”. > > Perfect freedom of choice, right? > > Regards, > Shodan Christ, you’re stupid. You’re so fucking stupid that your stupidity causes negative air pressure as the constant suction from your skull sucks small objects through one ear and out the other as you constantly miss point after point. You are so stupid that if a woman showed you an ocean, you’d call it a desert and her a liar. You’re so stupid that Terri Schiavo could out think you. (Sorry to Ms. Schiavo.) Most of all you’re so fucking stupid because it’s not about you and your feelings about abortion, you stupid numbfuck. Birthcontrol pills prevent abortion. It’s really simple. So I don’t really have much right to choose, do I? I can choose to assist in performing abortions, that’s fine. But I cannot refuse to do so. \*\*So I don’t really have much right to choose, do I? I can choose to assist in performing abortions, that’s fine. But I cannot refuse to do so. \*\* God, you’re fucking stupid. Abortion is a surgical procedure that happens after pregnancy. Birth control pills prevent pregnancy. Here’s a bunch of assholes–and Shodan, evidently—refusing to provide birth control pills to women who don’t want to get pregnant. And then whining about it because their rights to be interfering, self-righteous selfish fucks have been infringed upon! Oh, the horror! Abortion. Birth control. Learn the difference. And stop whining. You don’t have any right to control anybody else. ---
**Author:** ![Testy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@Testy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Testy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/107 "2005-03-29T17:20:17Z")
> [@hiebram](#): > > No, God never gave people a direct command to remain poor. In fact, there’s a “Health and Wealth” version of the gospel that emphasizes God’s desire to bless everyone. The problem of evil is probably outside the scope of this debate. OTOH, God did give Adam a direct [command](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:28;&version=31;) to procreate. So there’s the general thought that God wants people to prosper, and there’s the direct injunction to “be fruitful and multiply.” > Hiebram OK, a couple of things on that and then I’ll shut up. You are right that this is a hijack. Yes, I understand that there was no direct command to remain poor but that wasn’t really the point. The point was in trying to change your circumstances through your own efforts rather than wait for God to take care of it. OK then, a different example. Suppose you are crippled or maimed. Should you use medical technology to change that or should you leave the matter in God’s hands? I’ve heard of the “Health and Wealth” version of theology. Isn’t that the thing Benny Hinn and some others preach? Regards Testy ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/108 "2005-03-29T17:25:45Z")
> [@](#): > > I respectfully disagree. > > If you believe that a fertilized egg is a human, then birth-control pills act as an abortafacient (sp?), and it is all about abortion. Well, it would help if you believed something that had some basis in reality. Birth control pills prevent fertilization and implantation of fertilized eggs. It’s not abortion. Also, it’s not you. Don’t like abortion? Don’t have one. We’re also not talking about Joe Anti-Choice, who has signs that proclaim that his soon-to-be-out of business business doesn’t sell anything he doesn’t approve of. We’re talking about people who sign up for a job, agree to its terms and _then_ whine that they want to violate the contract they sign, _the rights of their female customers_ and any number of professional ethics—all of which they had previously agreed to. We’re talking about deception, self-righteous moralizing, and oh, yeah, a lack of follow through. I mean, if these guys are so determined to stop distributing birth control pills, then they’d better be prepared to adopt all those kids. I mean, it’s so easy to say you disapprove of someone’s choice, but when you _force_ that choice on them, you’d better be prepared to subsidize it, then. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/109 "2005-03-29T17:28:04Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > Your prescription could be called in to Walgreens, who will ship it anywhere in the country for you. All you need is a credit card. Not the best choice for a medication that becomes less effective the longer you wait to take it, and absolutely needs to be taken within 72 hours. Unless Walgreens ships really, really fast. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/110 "2005-03-29T17:41:47Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > It. Is. Not. About. Fucking. Abortion. You. Moronic. Turd. Read. The. Freaking. OP. You. Naughty. Knee-Jerker. > [@margin](#): > > Birthcontrol pills prevent abortion. It’s really simple. So you didn’t read the OP either, is that the problem? > [@](#): > > Some pharmacists across the country are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control **and morning-after pills** … (Emphasis added for the reality-impaired). For someone who believes that a zygote is fully human, the morning after pill is an abortifacient. Ergo, filling a prescription for the morning after pill is assisting in obtaining abortions. See how simple that was? > [@margin](#): > > So I don’t really have much right to choose, do I? I can choose to assist in performing abortions, that’s fine. But I cannot refuse to do so. > > \*\*So I don’t really have much right to choose, do I? I can choose to assist in performing abortions, that’s fine. But I cannot refuse to do so. \*\* I am not sure what the point was in repeating the places where you contradicted yourself. People (and you as well, **margin** ) have the right to decide for themselves whether or not abortion is morally OK. If they decide abortion is not OK, no one should force them to obtain or assist in obtaining an abortion. If they decide it is OK, no one can prevent them from obtaining or assisting in obtaining an abortion. Seems pretty straightforward to me, but then again my IQ is higher than room temperature, so it is hard for me to be empathetic. > [@](#): > > You don’t have any right to control anybody else. Very good. Now stop adding “unless they won’t do as they are told” and we will be all set. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/111 "2005-03-29T17:50:28Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Read. The. Freaking. OP. You. Naughty. Knee-Jerker. > So you didn’t read the OP either, is that the problem? > (Emphasis added for the reality-impaired). > > For someone who believes that a zygote is fully human, the morning after pill is an abortifacient. Ergo, filling a prescription for the morning after pill is assisting in obtaining abortions. See how simple that was? > I am not sure what the point was in repeating the places where you contradicted yourself. > > People (and you as well, **margin** ) have the right to decide for themselves whether or not abortion is morally OK. If they decide abortion is not OK, no one should force them to obtain or assist in obtaining an abortion. If they decide it is OK, no one can prevent them from obtaining or assisting in obtaining an abortion. > > Seems pretty straightforward to me, but then again my IQ is higher than room temperature, so it is hard for me to be empathetic. > Very good. Now stop adding “unless they won’t do as they are told” and we will be all set. > > Regards, > Shodan God, you’re fucking stupid. > [@](#): > > If they decide abortion is not OK, no one should force them to obtain or assist in obtaining an abortion The issue is whether these people should take jobs that require they do things they KNOW will conflict with those beliefs—which are scientifically invalid, you twit. I mean, Jesus Christ, the fundies keep ratcheting the definition of abortion backward. First it was a fetus. Then that wasn’t enough, and it had to be just implanted. Then it had to be fertilized clump of cells. Soon, it’ll be any old egg, because hey, it COULD get fertilized. Don’t become a pharmacist if you don’t want to perform the fucking job, dipshit. They’re the ones enforcing their beliefs on other people. And if you believe birth control pills are an abortifacient, you’re ignorant. They prevent fertilization, although some prevent implantation. Either way, Shodan, are you in position to take them? Do you pop birth control pills every morning? If not, what dog do you have in this hunt? Oh, that’s right. None. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/112 "2005-03-29T18:00:52Z")
Hey, dumbass, the morning after pill prevents conception, it does not kill a fertilized egg. It is not in any way an “abortificant.” As to the pharmacists in question. Their religious rights entitle them to choose not to work for a pharmacy that supplies contraception. They are _not_ entitled to take a paycheck from their employers if they are unwilling to do their jobs. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/113 "2005-03-29T18:00:35Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Isn’t it odd how the 100% sacred and inviolable right of every person to make up his or her own mind about abortion suddenly gets lots less sacred the instant someone decides anything except “abortion is always a swell idea”? > > Regards, > Shodan Where the hell do you see anybody here saying “abortion is a swell idea?” For that matter, where in this thread do you see people even debating the _idea_ of abortion? You’re turning this thread into something it’s not. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/114 "2005-03-29T18:08:27Z")
P.S. **Shodan** , the morning after pill cannot terminate an already established pregnancy. The way it works is this: if you haven’t ovulated yet, it delays ovulation. If you have ovulated, it prevents an egg from implanting. As **Diogenes** stated, it’s not an “abortificant.” Just so you know. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/115 "2005-03-29T18:13:16Z")
Nor is it an _abortifacient_. But a person of **Shodan** ’s profound and malignant brand of ignorance wouldn’t know that, either. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/116 "2005-03-29T18:29:58Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > If you have ovulated, it prevents an egg from implanting. I am sorry, I see abortifacient was the wrong word in my post. What’s the right word? And if you see a fertilized egg as a human being, is there a distinction between abortifacient and whatever the right word is for somebody that believes that? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/117 "2005-03-29T18:30:50Z")
From [Prevention.com](http://www.prevention.com/article/0,5778,s1-1-93-35-4130-2,00.html): > [@](#): > > Anti-Pill doctors and pharmacists base their stand on the fact that the Pill isn’t perfect: Although it is designed to suppress ovulation and prevent fertilization, both can–and do–occur in rare cases. About 1 woman in every 1,000 who takes the Pill exactly as directed becomes pregnant in a given year. But while mainstream experts say ovulation happens only 2 to 3 percent of the time and fertilization is rare, anti-Pill groups claim both happen frequently. They say most of these fertilized eggs–in their view, nascent human lives–are unable to attach to the hormonally altered uterine lining. Instead of implanting and growing, they slough off. This theoretical action, which scientists can’t confirm, is called the post-fertilization effect. > > At the heart of the debate between anti-Pill forces and mainstream medicine lies a profound difference of opinion about when pregnancy and life begin. The long-standing medical definition of pregnancy, held by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, is that it starts not when an egg is fertilized, but when the fertilized egg implants in the uterine lining. > > This distinction is practical: A pregnancy test won’t show a positive result before implantation. “It can’t be an abortion before there is a pregnancy,” points out David Grimes, MD, a clinical professor in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and one of the leading contraception experts in the US. > > But anti-Pill doctors and pharmacists say life begins sooner, at fertilization. Sloughing off a fertilized egg, in their view, is a “chemical abortion.” > > “How many women know that if they become pregnant after breakthrough ovulation, these ‘contraceptives’ will almost always kill any son or daughter they’ve conceived?” asks the anti-Pill organization Pro-Life America on the group’s Web site, [ProLife.com](http://ProLife.com). > > Surprisingly, there’s no science to back the theory that birth control pills really do discourage implantation. This claim, made by contraceptive manufacturers for decades, has never been proven, Grimes says. Even the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists agrees that it’s just speculation. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/118 "2005-03-29T18:31:24Z")
> [@margin](#): > > Either way, Shodan, are you in position to take them? Do you pop birth control pills every morning? If not, what dog do you have in this hunt? > > Oh, that’s right. > > None. You want to play that game? Well, you’re not seeking an abortion, so you have no right to object to what the pharmacists are doing, so shut the fuck up. > [@overlyverbose](#): > > P.S. **Shodan** , the morning after pill cannot terminate an already established pregnancy. The way it works is this: if you haven’t ovulated yet, it delays ovulation. If you have ovulated, it prevents an egg from implanting. As **Diogenes** stated, it’s not an “abortificant.” Just so you know. Thanks, but methinks there is a bit of redefining going on here. Eggs don’t generally implant unless they are fertilized. Preventing a fertilized egg from coming to term is considered (by some) to be an abortion, thus they are refusing to assist in doing this. What you seem to be doing is to change the definition of “valid human life that should not be killed” away from “zygote”, which is the definition agreed to by the pharmacists, to “zygote that has travelled down the Fallopian tubes and been implanted in the wall of the uterus”. And the power to enforce definitions of what constitutes a human life is at the very center of the abortion debate. If I am allowed to define **for you** at what point an abortion involves a separate human life, the “right to choose” becomes meaningless. Which is, I suspect, exactly why the pro-abortion advocates[sup]\*[/sup] in this thread are so excited about it. If they can get away with defining away the problem, they can overrule the rights of others to choose, and thus impose their point of view on others. Regards, Shodan [sup]\*[/sup]No, it would not be correct to refer to them as “pro-choice”, since they are advocating removing the right to choose about abortion under some circumstances, and those circumstances usually seem to be whenever someone refuses to cooperate with some form of abortion-on-demand. Thus they are properly referred to (in this thread) as “pro-abortion”. “Pro-choice” necessarily includes the choice of “No”, else it is no choice at all. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/119 "2005-03-29T18:33:40Z")
Well, then, said pharmacist should have stated his beliefs up front, or not taken the job. If he’s hired to dispense medication, then he’s hired to dispense ALL medication that pharmacy carries. Pregnancy doesn’t happen until implantation-how many fertilized eggs don’t even make it to the uterus anyways? ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620/120 "2005-03-29T18:35:41Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Hey, dumbass, the morning after pill prevents conception, it does not kill a fertilized egg. It is not in any way an “abortificant.” > > As to the pharmacists in question. Their religious rights entitle them to choose not to work for a pharmacy that supplies contraception. They are _not_ entitled to take a paycheck from their employers if they are unwilling to do their jobs. If the dumbass was to me, well, I am trying to learn. If you read all of the article linked in the OP you will note that some of the large pharmacy chains are supporting this by trying to accomodate the Pharmacists for Life. That makes them doing the job they are getting the paycheck for if their employers accept it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-fundie-pharmacists-who-wont-fill-birth-control-prescriptions/296620.md?page=7)