LINK Walgreens Pharmacist Refuses to Give Woman Medicine to Induce Miscarriage – Friendly Atheist
Walgreens allows their pharmacists to not serve customers if it conflicts with their beliefs... This customer needed this medicine due to her pregnancy not being viable.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Rite Aid was doing the same thing and we’re ordered by law to dispense birth control and Plan B. But given the new opt out law, I’m sure they’re doing that again.
Sydland
Level 7
June 25, 2018
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A pharmacist is not a doctor. So should sell the meds she carrries 1 does she have script 2 is the meds sold over the counter. If those things re met he should seel the med to her
benhmiller
Level 7
June 25, 2018
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The Walgreens chain has reached out to the patient. Their policy is to allow Pharmacists to follow their religious beliefs but also require the Pharmacist to refer the patient over to another Pharmacist or manager so the prescription can be filled in a timely manner.
"Arizona laws specifically allow pharmacies and pharmacists to refuse to fill a prescription for religious or moral reasons." [wmur.com]
cava
Level 7
June 25, 2018
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cava:
I don't agree with the law, but it is the law in AZ.
this is whats wrong with religions they think everyone should be like them. Build your wall and put on the slave chains of your religion
cava:
@OroLee I don't know, but I am guessing that if it is the law in AZ then the company CVS would be in trouble if it did not allow its pharmacists to deny filling a prescription on moral grounds.
"Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, and South Dakota all have laws specifically allowing pharmacists the right to refuse to fill prescriptions, according to the National Women’s Law Center. Other states have broader laws that allow health care providers to refuse certain types of services but prohibit them from preventing customers from accessing it elsewhere. And in California, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, Washington, and Wisconsin, pharmacies are required to provide patients with their prescribed medication."
If the pharmacist has an issue with the products her employer is selling then she needs to quit or take that issue up with her boss not customers. She should be put on probation until she proves she can do what she is being paid to do.
veRONicaMeower
Level 4
June 25, 2018
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I don't understand why the hospital did not provide this medicine.
Ellatynemouth
Level 8
June 25, 2018
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Hospitals generally only provide medication for inpatients. The medication is taken at home and the miscarriage occurs over several hours.
In the UK there are pharmacies that offer medicines to outpatients.
@Ellatynemouth sometimes in small, rural communities hospitals will provide patients with medications if it is outside pharmacy hours, like in the middle of the night or weekends, but if a local pharmacy is open, that's pretty much the standard protocol in the US.
I will say that some larger hospitals have an outpatient pharmacy on hospital grounds, but again, if it is outside normal business hours they will be closed. Also, I am not certain, but if the hospital has a religious affiliation I doubt their pharmacy would even carry that medication. ?
This is why I'm a feminist.
@Ellatynemouth You and me both sister!!
I agree.
We are so lucky in the UK. GUM clinics, GPs, hospitals can provide mifepristone. In fact, I have administered it as a nurse practitioner. Its not a big deal. My GP does not refer for terminations but they pass on to another surgery. They do prescribe this medication. Its most common use is as a preventative but is given as part of the kit provided following rape. I don't understand the issue myself.
Pharmacists take the Hippocratic oath too! OATH: "I swear . . . That I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture [contract]. . . . I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing."
goldrose
Level 7
June 25, 2018
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That is exactly what the pharmacist did, he acted
according his ability and judgement! Are both messed up? Probably, but no on his opinion.
Perhaps the pharmacist needs to get another job, or maybe another religion!
Geoffrey51
Level 8
June 25, 2018
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So he is threatening her life.
BufftonBeotch
Level 8
June 25, 2018
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@irascible I think interfering with medication in a life threatening situation should be persecuted.
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