Friday, February 16, 2007

Freedom of Choice for Pharmacist Rights of Conscience

The chicks at NARAL are at it again, using

pro-lifer blogs
for fund raising letters

Golly, gee whiz! How come those NAGs don't finish the thought and come out once and
for all and support FREEDOM of CHOICE for ALL PHARMACISTS to Rights of
Conscience? Are they now anti-choice?

Jill Stanek's blog
kind of said it all. Lord knows, the left hates success and using Wal Mart as their
punching bag is a lefty no brainer.


So what's the hub-a-bub, Bub? Wal Mart already stocks
the abortifacient Plan B at ALL its store now, recently caving in to the abortoholics
at NARAL and their fellow travelers.
Ah, those wascals at Wal Mart allowed a Springfield, OH pharmacist to exercize his rights of
conscience and not dispense Plan B recently. And that to a 23 year old female
'living in sin" with a 37 year old guy in need of a razor. The pharmacist explained--
politely even though you wouldn't know it from the drive-by media reports--
that he believed in the sanctity of life and could not knowingly dispense a
known abortifacient.

That some pharmacists can think for themselves, they are not automaton robots
just filling anything and everything, escapes the cranial power of these folks
who want freedom of 'choice' for everyone BUT the highly trained pharmacist,
who goes through a strict curriculum of a minimal 6 or 7 years of college,
has to now have an entry-level doctorate to practice, and who has the ongoing
burden of continuing education of 15-20 hrs per year of UNpaid time.

Coupled with the current severe shortage of overworked pharmacists in the US, the smart money knows
the chains cannot afford to chase more good pharmacists to another line of work.
They, the several state boards of pharmacy and the willing accomplices in the
'trade' associations--more interested in pharma funding than member services
and protection--had better start reading the writing on the wall: pharmacists with
high morals and ethics make MUCH better employees than those with no conscience,
or who are willing to skip good clinical care of their patients. That is good for patient
safety and care, and--ultimately--good for business.

Here's the NARAL pitch for money and taking away pharmacist 'choice'.

And here's another great opinion on the matter