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Ohio Wal-Mart Refuses Couple's Request For Over-the-Counter Pregnancy Prevention Pill
For the past few years, American pharmacists, clearly in violation of their own code of ethics, have been refusing to fill prescriptions for reproductive health items. The result has led to inconvenience, and--in some cases--pregnancy.
Now, a pharmacist and store manager at a Wal-Mart in Columbus, Ohio have taken the battle a step farther, refusing to sell an over-the-counter product. Tashina Byrd and her partner went to a Wal-Mart to buy
Plan B, and the pharmacist behind the counter just "shook his head and laughed."
Plan B, though an over-the-counter drug, is still stocked behind the pharmacy counter because a prescription is needed for females under the age of eighteen. The Wal-Mart pharmacist said that "I do not believe in ending life, and life begins at conception." The store manager told the couple that "The pharmacist has the law on his side."
Byrd has contacted Ohio governor Ted Strickland, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Wal-Mart Watch about the incident.
A pharmacist is licensed by the state to fill legal prescriptions. If any pharmacist refuses to do so, their license should be revoked! If they want to be preachers, they need to go back to school and leave the job of pharmacist to someone who will fulfill the requirements as a pharmacist, fill all legal prescriptions.
I agree with Ranselar. No one else gets to do ONLY what they believe is right on their job. If they want to be moral police, let 'em become preachers but stay the hell OUT of our pharmacies!!
I agree that a pharmacist shouldn't be allowed to preach from behind the counter by refusing to dispense the medication that he deems immoral. Being that both Byrd and her partner were older than 18 years of age, and that the medication is technically over the counter for them, someone else could have granted their request, no?
This is another travesty. I think the pharmacist should be fired and the store manager, too, since he lied by saying the pharmacist had the law on his side. Additionally, what the hell is Wal-Mart teaching its management staff? "The customer is always right, unless of course they're morally wrong."
I should think the narrowest interpretation of the Bible would have a problem with people taking any drug, but I'm sure our sparkly-clean pharmacist doesn't refuse every person who comes through the door.
This is part of the organized mission of radicals to work their way into the everyday fabric of America and strangle out their opposition. They are doing it in school systems, too, so they can stamp out gay/straight alliances. We should have known that with the political current moving to the left last election, these freaks would double their resolve to try to control their neighbors in the civic realm and, as in this case, in the mass market. Another reason I am so glad I don't shop at Wal-Hell. [Okay, I don't believe in hell, but as a construct...]
And I bet he still fills out scripts for oxycontin