Showing posts with label conscientious objection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conscientious objection. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Mercy Me: No Birth Control for You...

Divine Mercy Care, a new drug store at a Chantilly, Virginia strip mall is putting its faith in an unconventional business plan: No candy. No sodas. And no birth control.

I wonder if they sell Viagra? Or protease inhibitors or reverse transcriptase inhibitors? Or Halloween costumes? The list of possibly offending substances or items can go on and on....I can appreciate that conscience and morals of a health care worker should be considered, so long as patients are being cared for, not overburdened by long drives through rural towns and not being shamed for what someone presumes to be an immoral lifestyle choice.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Yet another argument against conscientious objection by pharmacists

We've blogged before about the issue of conscientious objection by pharmacists, and it has remained a mystery to me about how pharmacists decide who should and should not be able to obtain certain prescriptions, based upon the purpose of the drug, particularly when the drug may have more than one use. This past week, in the BBC news, researchers have concluded that the contraceptive pill 'has stopped 100,00 deaths' over the last 50 years. Do the conscientious objecting pharmacists assume that anyone who takes the pill is using it only for birth control?