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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
Would that effectively be the case if the owner/manager of the store had the final word on whether birth control was sold and said no?
I don't agree with laws that protect anti-abortion pharmacists from being fired. The government has no business telling an employer that s/he can't fire an employee for being anti-abortion. (Or pro-abortion. Or black. Or gay. Or left-handed. For that matter.)
The government also has no business, however, telling a pharmacist that he must be willing to perform every possible function of the job or none of it. The government has no business defining pharmacies as intrinsically contraceptive.
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Well, I think it's slightly more problematic in the modern world. For instance, a friend of mine has a prescription on file for birth control at a chain pharmacy, something like Walgreens or CVS. I don't know if she has a paper copy or not. If she goes into the pharmacy to get her prescription filled, I don't think it should matter which particular pharmacist is on duty that day. I would say the pharmacy has already accepted the responsibility to fill that prescription in return for her being a loyal customer and regularly getting her medication at their stores. If the pharmacy adopts a top-down "no birth control" policy, then I'd say it probably would be ok. It could have bad effects in smaller towns...but I suppose there's always mail-order....