Can Pharmacists Morally Object? - Page 2

foundit66 · #11 (**permalink**) 07-10-2008, 10:22 PM

California, New Jersey, Illinois and Washington state recently began requiring pharmacies to fill all prescriptions or help women fill them elsewhere, and at least another 10 states are considering such requirements. But some states exempt pharmacies that do not generally stock contraceptives, and it is unclear how other existing rules and laws and those being considered would apply to those pharmacies.

'Pro-Life' Drugstores Market Beliefs - washingtonpost.com

Mikeyy · #12 (**permalink**) 07-10-2008, 11:50 PM

A quandary. Can a policeman decide which laws he will enforce? But then doctors refuse to do certain procedures. In rural areas people may only have one source. So I would say that because they are providing needed products. And that they are not qualified to prescribe. That if they are going to work under a state lic. It shoud be mandatory to provide all ordered meds. Or find a different friggin job. IMO

saltwn · #13 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by tristanrobin

saltwn - are you comparing reading material with medicines?!

Sort of. The "medicine" is better compared to vanity surgery. It's not a critical but an optional therapy. You may want to take it, but there's nothing that compels a druggist to have to stock it at all. There are herbs that I personally feel are important that I have to order on the internet. The pharmacist don't stock them. If it's not a big sales decision, I don't see why they would. They can't stock everything people want anyway.

Mikeyy · #14 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

Sort of. The "medicine" is better compared to vanity surgery. It's not a critical but an optional therapy. You may want to take it, but there's nothing that compels a druggist to have to stock it at all. There are herbs that I personally feel are important that I have to order on the internet. The pharmacist don't stock them. If it's not a big sales decision, I don't see why they would. They can't stock everything people want anyway.

If there are 300 million of us. Howmany of us would have to use a product for it to be deemed a required product to be stocked. 1% of the population?

saltwn · #15 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Mikeyy

If there are 300 million of us. Howmany of us would have to use a product for it to be deemed a required product to be stocked. 1% of the population?

If it's your pharmacy you would probably let the market dictate what you stock.
Blood pressure medicine, diabetic supplies and a host of other drugs are in high demand. You may or may not stock birth control pills. I've been to a few pharmacies that don't stock them and I don't think it had as much to do with morals as it did shelf life and demand.

I can't remember the name of the chain, but there's a group of grocery store pharmacies that doesn't stock the abortion pill, because the owner dictates what is ordered and what isn't. The owner or owners don't require this pill be stocked. For whatever reason. They will tell you where you can buy it though.
It's a product. You don't have a right to dictate what your local store orders.

dabateman · #16 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

If it's your pharmacy you would probably let the market dictate what you stock.
Blood pressure medicine, diabetic supplies and a host of other drugs are in high demand. You may or may not stock birth control pills. I've been to a few pharmacies that don't stock them and I don't think it had as much to do with morals as it did shelf life and demand.

I can't remember the name of the chain, but there's a group of grocery store pharmacies that doesn't stock the abortion pill, because the owner dictates what is ordered and what isn't. The owner or owners don't require this pill be stocked. For whatever reason. They will tell you where you can buy it though.
It's a product. You don't have a right to dictate what your local store orders.

Market solutions are generally good ones. I might be willing to institute requirements if it is the only pharmacy within a certain radius, meaning there is limited competition, but for the most part the free market solution works.

Mikeyy · #17 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

If it's your pharmacy you would probably let the market dictate what you stock.
Blood pressure medicine, diabetic supplies and a host of other drugs are in high demand. You may or may not stock birth control pills. I've been to a few pharmacies that don't stock them and I don't think it had as much to do with morals as it did shelf life and demand.

I can't remember the name of the chain, but there's a group of grocery store pharmacies that doesn't stock the abortion pill, because the owner dictates what is ordered and what isn't. The owner or owners don't require this pill be stocked. For whatever reason. They will tell you where you can buy it though.
It's a product. You don't have a right to dictate what your local store orders.

No, But if you are lic. by the state they can set the standards of practice for a pharmacy. Nobody forced them to be in the pharmacy biz. But you choose to be a supplier for the public it takes your choices out of your hands. You have agreed by accepting the Lic. that you will follow state law.

tristanrobin · #18 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 10:09 AM

Didn't Walmart go through some court case like this in Illinois a couple of years ago? I vaguely remember that they didn't stock the pill (being a family business and all

) and the courts told them they did have to stock and dispense it.

Anybody remember the particulars?

tristanrobin · #19 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 10:10 AM

Wal-Mart to Begin Dispensing "Morning After" Pill This Week

here it is

The Baron · #20 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 01:13 PM

“I understand your position.

I wholeheartedly disagree 100% with it.” - tristanrobin

Say it ain’t so!

“If he doesn't want to fill the prescriptions from doctors, he needs to go into a different field.” - tristanrobin

So a mature, educated adult should not be allowed to decide how to run his own business?

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