If you refuse to provide someone with the medication that a DOCTOR prescribed them, you should not become a pharmacist because that is the job description.
These goes for those people who claim “moral” reasons to refuse to fill hormone therapy drugs for transgender people, those who refuse to fill birth control prescriptions, and emergency contraception meds.
Speaking as someone who has worked as a pharmacy assisstant (basically we can take scripts and fill them but it needs to be checked by the pharmacist to ensure it’s correct. there is actual training involved), there is only ONE (1) reason why a pharmacist should ever refuse to fill a prescription.
If the drug is unsafe for you to take.
And of course, they should always (and we always did) contact the doctor to ensure that what they prescribed you is appropriate. It has nothing to do with personal beliefs and everything to do with safety.
Folks when the GOP talks about “religious freedom”, what they mean is, “The right to discriminate against anyone at any time as long as I claim my religious beliefs require it”
This is just one example. There are lots more, more life threatening than this.
EVERY judge the Federalist Society puts forward for Trump to rubber stamp believes this is how religious freedom should be. Including Kavanaugh.
The only thing that can stop this is voting out the GOP at every level and every opportunity.
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