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.
this is why old ppl never realize what they’re saying when they say “when i was your age i payed for my tuition all by myself” yeah well sorry susan my tuition is $35,000 a year and i make $7 an hour
So, Michigan Republicans just had a SUPER idea. They wanted to put yellow stars on legal immigrants’ driver’s licenses, you know, so they’re easily identifiable.
Was it utter ignorance of history, has a Neo-Nazi troll managed to gain a position of power, or has everyone simply lost their ever-loving goddamn minds?
Why does this not have more publicity. This needs it!
I want a reality tv show where politicians have to live in poverty for a month. They have to live in Government housing, shop with food stamps, and get only a limited amount of money for clothes. Because here, they still have all their trappings, lilke nice cars and thousand dollar suits. I want them in Walmart jeans trying to determine if they can afford a carton of milk.
Give them a full calendar year. I want to see them confident in January, and sometime around June choking back tears at the Safeway because they are tired, so tired, of eating 25 cent cup noodles, eyeing other peoples’ full grocery carts with a dull bewilderment.
Let me see them despair because they have a persistent nagging cough that won’t go away and might be turning into pneumonia but the minute clinic is $60, which might as well be as six million dollars, either way they ain’t got it to spare – and that doesn’t count the cost of prescriptions. Let me hear them tell people about the muscle cramps they get at night due to eating non-nutritious garbage for months, the weakness from persistent hunger.
Let them know the shame and frustration of only owning one pair of cheap polyester pants for work and one pair of thrift-store jeans, and both persistently have ripped crotches and seams coming undone, no matter how many times they get sewn back up.
Let the women know the particular sort of despair that comes once a month when you can’t afford even the cheapest pads or tampons.
Let them understand the frustration of being charged a $35 fee for a $2 overdraft. Let them watch as the bank holds charges from different days in “pending” till they all come through on the same day, and the bank charges them four times for a single overdraft because “the charges all cleared at the same time”.
I want them to know the particular pain of having to decide between food for the week, or transportation costs to and from work. You can’t have both. Choose wisely.
You do not truly understand poverty until you’ve lived it and a month isn’t enough to encompass it. Not even close.
Loki is the Philosopher King 