So what if a pharmacy runs out of jock itch cream? Do they have to put that on the marquee out front? How large does the sign have to be?
CVS and Walgreens employs pharmacists. There are very few independent pharmacists left, they get bought out.
You can get killed walking your doggie.
And heavens, have you heard what can happen to people who drink bleach! Best remove that from the shelves at CVS too.
How is not stocking the medicine due to choice differ from not stocking the medicine for cost effectiveness compare?
No. Fire them both and ban them from the industry.
Because that’s the only category of medicine that anyone is trying to use as a tool of persecution at the moment, at least on a big enough scale that it’s made the news.
It can and does. You don’t get to starve your children because God tells you to, or to do all sorts of other things. Religion stops being a private matter when you impose it on others. Especially when you are in a position of government enforced privilege in the first place.
Ah, “freedom-haters”. Because the freedom of religious scum is the only freedom that counts. Women should be good little slaves and submit. They don’t deserve freedom.
That won’t stop them from doing it anyway. And a state that supports this kind of religious bigotry isn’t likely to prosecute him for it.
No, they are anti-woman; they don’t care about abortion or the fetus except as clubs to beat on women.
So can being denied medicine you need or given the wrong medicine because the pharmacist is a religious bigot. If the pharmacist can do his job according to religion instead of science, the reason the job exists in the first place vanishes.
I can think of at least 3 within 15 miles of where I live. There are probably others I don’t know about. Got a cite for that “very few” left?
It’s not a ‘treatment’, as pregnancy is a normal state. You don’t treat ‘normal’.
Pregnancy is normal for animals used for breeding. Human women are not such beasts.
This is less like a hotel “refusing to allow blacks” and more like a hotel “refusing to provide B.E.T on the cable line up”
It’s normal to be in horrible pain after severe injuries; we treat that with anesthetic. It’s normal for our hair to grow until it stops; we cut it instead. We “treat normal” all the time.
No; this is more like refusing antibiotics to black people or AIDS drugs to homosexuals because you think God hates them.
Plan B is not a Legend drug, or a medication that requires a prescription. It is essentially an OTC. The FDA mandated an age restriction on the product. Therefore it is kept behind the counter because the pharmacy must determine if the person purchasing the medication is old enough.
Anyone with a valid form of ID showing they are 17 or older can walk in and buy Plan B.
I wondering if a “must stock” rule is enforceable. If not, then what’s the point of having one? If all I have to do to avoid selling it is to stock it but mark the price at some outrageous level, then the “must stock” rule is a farce.
Of course it is, the government enforces far more complex laws all the time.
I love the pretense that a woman will always be able to get Plan B medication somewhere in a timely manner, so that having Conscience Pharmacists denying her the prescription at their shop won’t matter. Odd then that this is a big issue for the anti-abortion rights crowd.
If this becomes enough of a problem it will hasten the day when Plan B is available over the counter. Then the anti-abortion rights activists who say now that it’s no big deal will have to scurry around to all the drug and discount stores that stock it, to emphasize what a big deal it isn’t.
Or in the Republic of Santorum, we could at least mandate that anyone buying Plan B would have to view a video showing graphic images of miscarriages, anyone purchasing Viagra would have to see a video on the destructiveness of sex out of wedlock and adultery etc.
It’s just the right thing to do.
It already is, provided you’re over 17.
When you ask a machine shop to quote a job, and they don’t want to do it, they make the price totally unreasonable. It’s a tried and true tradition.
Well, it would be OTC right now if Obama hadn’t blocked that move back in December.
erislover: I really don’t know what it is you don’t understand. I’m wondering, for all those people who think pharmacists should be forced to carry Plan B, if there was a trivial way for them to subvert such a rule. That’s all.
There are trivial ways to subvert most rules… once or twice. This does not make them unenforceable.
There is no pretense, it is clear that in a very small number of cases it will be a problem.