AMA vs. Pro-life Pharmacies

The American Medical Association attacks pro-life pharmacies and pharmacists' consciences.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• pro-life
• pro-choice
• abortion
• contraception
• american
• medical
• association
• pharmacy
• pharmacist
• conscience

[skamic88]

... So by denying a woman her prescription, not only is the pharmacist challenging the prescribing doctor and his judgment, but they are also breaking the oath, to protect and provide proper health care, they swore upon taking their job! They may be denying these women the drugs they need to treat a painful illnesses like Dysmenorrhea or endometriosis. They may also be denying women a drug that would prep them for uterine operations such as a D&C biopsy, ablation, or IUD insertion.

[neillob11]

First off they are not "baby killing products!" Further its against most store policies and some laws! Also who the fuck is a pharmacist to question the doctors orders. The pharmacist can give a consult UPON REQUEST!

[SexySadie98506]

@Fuctmentality There's no proof that emergency contraception inhibits implantation.

[SexySadie98506]

@FAHayek89 Well, actually, there are laws against killing human beings, so unless you're in the military or law enforcement, you don't have a "right" to kill another human being. However, women have the right to prevent pregnancy. Thank God!

[jesusisaklingon]

The Pharmacist job is to dispense drugs, NOT to interfere in other people's needs/desires. What if they don' tlike the use of Oxy-Contin or other drugs that can be addictive? Do they have the right to deny you your pain medication "for your own good"? If they can't do their job then they need to get another job....

[lambchopclmt]

-_-; thank god i wont be forced to go to one of them. I love my pharmacist. I would much rather have birth control than an abortion, call me crazy.

[DeadlyChinchilla]

No other job in no other field claims this "conscience clause." ONLY in cases of religious people against abortion. Sorry, but these pharmacists CHOSE to go into that field. If they cannot do their job, they should LOSE IT.

I was reading about a pharmacist who refused to fill a blood-clotting medicine for a women he *suspected* had an abortion. He called the doctor & demanded to know if she had, hung up on them when they refused to answer. She could have bled to death. Is that pro-life?

[skamic88]

@FAHayek89 Yes, in small towns there may be only one pharmacy with one pharmacist.

The classic oath says this; however that is not stated in the Modern (and relevant) Hippocratic Oath. This one is outa touch with today's society (for example, doctors shouldn't have to vow to help all men, "be they free or slaves," seeing as how slavery is illegal in the Western world). The one you cited, has doctors swearing they wont preform lithotomy. Moreover you are swearing to 4 gods from a dead religion.

[FAHayek89]

@snowcherry29 You have every right to go to another pharmacy. No one has taken away your right to kill another human being, if such a right can exist.

[FAHayek89]

@skamic88 They are not denying the woman the right to have her perscription filled. She is free to go elsewhere.

The doctor, however, may be violating HIS or HER oath. The Hippocratic Oath states, "I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy."

[Fuctmentality]

Don't want to supply birth control, don't be a pharmacist.

[Fuctmentality]

That's only partially true, the pill also provides a secondary function that prevents a fertilized ovum from attaching to the uterine wall. The people who say that counts as abortion are idiots though, as breastfeeding has the exact same effect.