Battle Over Reproductive Issues Moving to Pharmacies: ; Some Pharmacists Are Refusing to Fill Orders for Some Medications On Moral Grounds
Charleston Daily Mail › March 30, 2005
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Some pharmacists around the country are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills, saying that dispensing the medications violates their personal moral or religious beliefs.
The trend has opened a new front in the nation's battle over reproductive rights, sparking an intense debate over the competing rights of pharmacists to refuse to participate in something they consider repugnant versus a woman's right to get medications her doctor has prescribed. It has triggered pitched political battles in State Houses across the nation as politicians seek to pass laws either to protect pharmacists from being penalized - or force them to carry out their duties.See the full content of this document
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Battle Over Reproductive Issues Moving to Pharmacies: ; Some Pharmacists Are Refusing to Fill Orders for Some Medications On Moral Grounds
"This is a very big issue that's just beginning to surface," said Steven H. Aden of the Christian Legal Society's Center for Law and Religious Freedom in Annandale, Va., which defends pharmacists.
An increasing number of clashes are occurring. Pharmacists often risk dismissal or other disciplinary action to stand up for their beliefs, while shaken teenage girls and women desperately call their doctors, frequently late at night, after being turned away."There are...See the full content of this document
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