Adults do not (usually) have the right to decide which part of their jobs they are going to perform.

And, as has already been mentioned, this is a government licensed profession. If you are unwilling to do the job as outlined by the government, you really shouldn't spend all that time on an education and getting licensed BY the government.

Go get a job at the Stop and Shop.

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Do you agree that firemen should be given the right to refuse to put out a fire at a brothel, if it offends them?

Do you believe that health care workers should be allowed to refuse to give aid to a person who is gay because their religion says it's wrong?

Should policemen refuse to help a mugging victim who is a member of [insert bigoted sinful person group] because their preachers say that person is bad and it goes against their religion?

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that's total b.s.

they are doing no such thing ... or, at the least, no more than a person who sells a doctor a scalpel and sanitized compresses and what-ever-else-is-required to perform abortions.

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Agreed but the trade off should be that they receive absolutly no participation from Medicare/Medicaid customers! They cant have it both ways.

I think its even simpler. If you accept a Lic. as a pharmacist you have accepted a responsibility to the public. The time to morally object was when you decided to take on a position like that.

Lastly, they are not doctors. Refusing a prescribed drug is over riding the orders of your doctor. What gives a pharmacist the right to intervene?

Nothing that I know of.

Or you can just not stock the pills. I see no harm in it as long as you just don't have them in stock and don't do special orders.

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Just something to think about. If an officer cannot choose which laws to enforce, should a pharmacist be able to choose which conditions to treat? Especially if it's an order from a doctor?

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A prescription isn't an order. It just tells the pharmacist what drugs to dispense. A pharmacy doesn't stock everything that might be prescribed. Obviously in some states they aren't required to dispense all drugs, just make sure they dispense the right ones.

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