If you don't believe in dispensing meat, it's your right to choose not to work in the meat department.
Ditto pharmaceuticals.
Either do your job or go away and let someone else do the job you're not able to do. I'd rather not go back to having debilitating cramps four days a month because some pharmacist thinks I shouldn't have access to legal drugs.
Its good to know that both sides have an excellent grasp of the "slippery slope" argument:
"They'll force women to kill their children ... It will be like China. It's the next logical step," she told Reuters.
"Today they might not fill prescriptions for birth control pills. Tomorrow it could be painkillers for a cancer patient. Next year it could be medicine that prolongs the life of a person with AIDS or some other terminal disease."
an addendum to my own commentgarfunkliaApril 18 2005, 11:46:51 UTC
In looking back over this and Elena's comment about people having no sense of reality, I find myself very concerned at what the world has come to accept as "logic". Is there a silent majority that looks at these comments with the same exasperation as I do, or have people really come to think that maybe these ARE logical outcomes. If the latter is true, I would have to be very concerned for our nation. Soon we'll be back to burning witches on "logical" premises. I mean..Its the next logical step!
i was listening to this on NPR this week (yes, i have become my father) and just about had to pull the damn car off the side of the road. some people have no concept of reality. i'm sure their kids are filling their BC prescriptions elsewhere.
Wow, my lj replies are getting a little out of control. Sorry Nick! But I was just contemplating this reply. First off, I realize I need to take stock of my own views, because while I find it very unreasonable for pharmacists to withhold medicine that has been prescribed, I simultaneously feel rather strongly that I would not want to be trained in abortions. I will have to examine the reason for that possible disconnect. Then maybe I'll have to go re-read the Cider House Rules.
But then that made me wonder about the logistics of such legislation. Certainly all doctors would not be trained in this, as it would hardly fall under the job description of an orthopedist. So maybe all GPs should learn. Except there are plenty of GPs who are not trained in, say, joint injections. Why should abortion have the special place of being available by every doctor? So maybe OB/GYNs? Just curious.
Hopefully Nick will be kind and not revoke my posting priveledges despite my blatant abuse of such.
Re: logisticsfeminist11April 19 2005, 15:40:15 UTC
Actually, I just made that comment to be inflammatory. I have mixed feelings about the medical opt-out for abortion training. However, the "I'm going to heaven because I refuse to learn how to perform abortions" sthick really gets to me.
Plus, other professions have to do things they disgaree with morally all the damn time. Why should doctors be any different?
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Ditto pharmaceuticals.
Either do your job or go away and let someone else do the job you're not able to do. I'd rather not go back to having debilitating cramps four days a month because some pharmacist thinks I shouldn't have access to legal drugs.
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"They'll force women to kill their children ... It will be like China. It's the next logical step," she told Reuters.
"Today they might not fill prescriptions for birth control pills. Tomorrow it could be painkillers for a cancer patient. Next year it could be medicine that prolongs the life of a person with AIDS or some other terminal disease."
Really people.
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Ok, Im done now. I promise :)
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Now if we could only get similar legislation that requires doctors to be trained to perform abortions...
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But then that made me wonder about the logistics of such legislation. Certainly all doctors would not be trained in this, as it would hardly fall under the job description of an orthopedist. So maybe all GPs should learn. Except there are plenty of GPs who are not trained in, say, joint injections. Why should abortion have the special place of being available by every doctor? So maybe OB/GYNs? Just curious.
Hopefully Nick will be kind and not revoke my posting priveledges despite my blatant abuse of such.
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Plus, other professions have to do things they disgaree with morally all the damn time. Why should doctors be any different?
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