Tell Pharmacists to dispense Prescriptions not Dogma

[flipside]

Last week in a unanimous vote, the Washington state Board of Pharmacists gave pharmacists the legal right to refuse to dipense emergency contraceptives or

ANY OTHER MEDICATION on MORAL grouds.

While emergency contraception may be the catalyst behind this proposed law, if passed

it would set a dangerous precedent for ALL medications

Giving pharmacists the power to "morally" object to dispensing ANY other RX's as well, possible meds include AIDS/HIV meds, STD meds, obesity treatments...

And can we all say in unison... NARCOTICS

What is at stake has nothing to do with health-it has everything to do with control and imposing subjective morality. (Something many of us have already run into at the pharmacy). If passed, not only can pharmacists question our scripts as they do now but could REFUSE to FILL THEM..... LEGALY

The legal loophole (according to the state Pharm board) you can take your precsription to another pharmacy. Assuming that individuals can simply travel to and from pharmacies in search of one that
will fill your script after you have been refused by your own pharmacy is a ludicrous concept.

Americans should not have to shop around for their prescriptions!

To make matters worse lawmakers in 18 other states are also trying to legalize this blatant discrimination.

Approving this law would set a dangerous precedent, sending Washington and the rest of the nation down a slippery slope.

Where is the line in this law drawn?

With the individual Pharmacist........

[Coddfish]

A tiny coddfish rant:

I have wondered often lately why it is that people can't stay the FUCK out of other peoples' lives. I cannot come up with an answer.

The jerry springers and national pollsters (among others) have a secondary effect of making many MANY people believe that they should have an opinion on all kinds of crap, and that their opinion counts on things that have NOTHING to do with them.

Here again, a person can say 'that's just not right' and have it affect the life of someone with absolutely NO connection with that person. (Maybe the law hasn't passed yet, but just it getting this far has had its effect on people.)

WTF?!!? Do your fucking job, stay the fuck out of my life, and work your ass off to be as happy as you can be......I won't stand in your way. It's that fucking simple.

[shaunclo]

Jeses H Fuckin Christ on a stick, Why???

I dont get it, they are giving pharmacists power over your Doctor's own judgement? This makes no sense whatsoever.

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Jeses H Fuckin Christ on a stick, Why???

I dont get it, they are giving pharmacists power over your Doctor's own judgement? This makes no sense whatsoever.

Yep S, that is EXACTLY what they are doing. And by using the moroning after pill as the catalyst many pro-lifers will urge their lawmakers to vote for this law, God help them when they need any other med that their pharm refuses to fill because they helped Lobby to get this law on the books.

[candyshop]

is there anything practical we can do to protest this violation? i continue to try voting(which clearly does not work) i am either foolishly hopeful or plain stoopit-really any ideas for persons more politically savvy than i ?

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is there anything practical we can do to protest this violation? i continue to try voting(which clearly does not work) i am either foolishly hopeful or plain stoopit-really any ideas for persons more politically savvy than i ?

Candy..there is indeed something we can do about it. This not being a political forum I did not post a link to the petitions and other ways to get involved as not sure that would have been appropriate. I am extremely active in protecting and getting initiatives that protect the rights of chronic pain patients and their ascess to meds, PM me and I'll give you a couple of links where you can start just by signing petitions to block the passage of this law, other ways to get invovled there also if interested.

[HistoryofMadness]

If this is true then they are going to have to fight with the law... I just heard today that pharmacists were going to be held accountable for the results of this kind of activism... the problem is that based on the national guidelines, pharmacists can only refuse to give medication based on medical or professional, not personal or religious grounds.

This is not the first group that will hopefully get shit on for trying to legislate their morality. Fuck them. I hope they get sued, and the case law makes it clear once and for all, because this is an issue for the 18th century, not the 21st...

Ok, my rant is now over.

[Cornburglar]

A tiny coddfish rant:

I have wondered often lately why it is that people can't stay the FUCK out of other peoples' lives. I cannot come up with an answer.

The jerry springers and national pollsters (among others) have a secondary effect of making many MANY people believe that they should have an opinion on all kinds of crap, and that their opinion counts on things that have NOTHING to do with them.

Here again, a person can say 'that's just not right' and have it affect the life of someone with absolutely NO connection with that person. (Maybe the law hasn't passed yet, but just it getting this far has had its effect on people.)

WTF?!!? Do your fucking job, stay the fuck out of my life, and work your ass off to be as happy as you can be......I won't stand in your way. It's that fucking simple.
That reminds me of this stupid Gallup poll I got on the phone last night. This guy kept asking me questions about moral issues and my answer to roughly 90% of them was, "WHO CARES?" What does my opinion have to do with someone elses business.. worse yet, what does their opinion have to do with mine.

This is just another example of how our government seeks to slowly and methodically withdrawaw our personal freedoms right under our noses. Just one little baby step at a time, while we're worried about terrorist A-rabs and the cost of gas.... just one little baby step, just one more until we're so far gone we don't remember how to get back. Then we're really uck-feyed! And all the while, the Man... you know, Mr. Charlie, he says he's doing this thing to our freedom to protect us from evil.

I have 2 controlled prescriptions. ritalin and klonopin. Whenever, and I mean every single time I go to the pharmacy right by the doctor's office to get them filled... it takes like the better part of an hour, even though I see people drop off after I get there and pick up well before I leave. It's almost as if they're trying to see if I'll go into fits for my medications. Then, when they're finally filled, if there's not some imaginary problem, which 5/10 times there is, but if I can get them, the pharmacists INSISTS on meeting with me to discuss how the meds are taken and to give me the hairy eyeball of course. I've been taking the same meds at nearly the same dose for a year plus now and the guy still thinks I'm up to no good. So...once again.... here I go....

:finger4u: to the government who makes it entirely too difficult for people to get the meds they need, especially PAIN medication. Mind boggling.... isn't it?

and another :finger4u: to the professional societies that govern doctors and pharmacists for allowing the government to bully their methods and implimentations of practice.

Stay the fuck out of my life! And as my psychiatrist says when talking about Mr. Hoity toity pharmacist, "Ugg... just do your job and gimmie my pills."