specifically, plan b? Here's a link to a story from a pharmacist who sees this still happening.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvTT7_ZKK6jSurU7qXTEt7xIzKIX?qid=20070305143313AANN0Ww
2007-03-19 10:07:23 · 17 answers · asked by M L 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
sorry, "sale". wouldn't let me correct it.
2007-03-19 10:08:36 · update #1
IMHO, no. If a drug has been legally prescribed by a physician, the pharmacist should not be able to deny the filling of that prescription, regardless of his religious issues.
What's the difference between Plan B being denied by a pro-life pharmacist, and the sale of the Pill being denied by a Catholic pharmacist because Catholicism does not permit the use of birth control?
If the pharmacist does not want to fill Plan B subscriptions, then they should not carry the drug at all. To say "We don't carry that" is a different story than "We have it, but I won't fill it for you."
(After re-reading the link, it's not a prescription drug. But I still don't believe that a pharmacist should be able to deny it to someone based on their own personal preferences. If you have it in stock, you must fill the request.)
2007-03-19 10:10:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
A pharmacist can, and is required to deny sale of drugs that they consider improper. What that question says is a pharmacy tech, who in some states requires no special training thinks she knows better than 5 or 6 pharmacists who have trained for 6 or 7 years. She is prepared to commit a felony in selling drugs that she is not entitled to and is specifically forbidden to do under FDA rules. She is not even aware of what Plan B really is. How can she be taken seriously? If she did sell the drugs she can go to jail and probably will. Why should she be believed over the licensed pharmacists?
2007-03-19 17:17:23 · answer #2 · answered by Elizabeth Howard 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Plan b is considered an abortificiant because one of it mechanism is that it does prevent the fertilized egg from implanting.
Pharmacists have the right to their conscience to not partake in something that they see as intrinically wrong.
The sad part is that millions of females will again dose their bodies with these high dose hormones( equivalent to 50 Levline mini pills) and most won't even be pregnant but since they don't know for sure, they will all take these hormones. Excessive hormones are not good for females no matter what they say.
Look at the package sheet. Also please read the medical sheet that comes in the package for birth control. At time woman have break through ovulation so they too can be abortificiant. The medical community changed their definition of when pregnancy began. This started in 1964. Pregnancy use to begin at conception, now it begins at implantation. It is simply a lie.
2007-03-19 17:26:41 · answer #3 · answered by Marg 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Here in our modern world/society it seems that the owner of a store (pharmacy) is not allowed to sell or not sell their choice of product.
The fair thing would be to let the owner of the pharmacy decide for that store to sell or not sell any item, no matter what the customer wants. The customer can always go to another pharmacy with their prescription and likely get it filled.
The best thing for the pharmacy to do is just not stock the item they do not wish to sell rather than having it on their shelves and refusing to sell it.
Kev
2007-03-20 04:05:04 · answer #4 · answered by Hobgoblin Kev 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think I will take the pharmacist's word over the tech's that she knows what she is doing.
I would be quite upset if some tech sold that junk to my under-age daughter. Especially if it caused any permanent damage.
The tech works FOR the pharmacist, she is not a pharmacist in her own right...she has NO RIGHT to make these sorts of judgment calls.
2007-03-19 17:35:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, because if they deny the sale of a certain drug what is to stop them from denying the sale of other drugs..They are making judgement calls "as they see fit." And we have already been to a doctor for that..They just need to do their job no matter the belief..and w/ Plan B, if they say they don't have it even when they do..then they are guilty of lying..
2007-03-19 17:12:20 · answer #6 · answered by 1sweet lady 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely not. The pharmacist is not God, or a religious authority, or even a doctor for that matter. The pharmacist is there to dispense prescribed drugs. Period.
2007-03-19 17:13:21 · answer #7 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely not. Imagine a Christian Science pharmacist who won't fill any Prescription because it's against his/her
beliefs.
2007-03-19 17:40:02 · answer #8 · answered by Dawn G 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That whole situation disgusts me. I don't understand how someone can be a pharmacist and essentially refuse to do his job. The fact that stores allow this makes me sick. They are allowed to do that, but they have to provide you with the name of another pharmacy where you can get it.
2007-03-19 17:10:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
no. i respect that everyone has different beliefs regarding birth control and emergency contraceptives, but as a pharmacist it is your JOB to sell people the medicine they pay for. if you know your prospective profession is going to conflict with your religious or moral beliefs, find another one.
2007-03-19 17:28:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋