For a year, Julee Lacey stopped in a CVS pharmacy near her home in a Fort Worth suburb to get refills of her birth-control pills. Then one day last March, the pharmacist refused to fill Lacey’s prescription because she did not believe in birth control.
Okay, dumbass, listen up.
You are not Ms. Lacey’s doctor.
You are not Ms. Lacey’s preacher.
You are in no way qualified to decide whether or not Ms. Lacey can or cannot have a prescription that she was given by a licensed physician unless you can show that it would be harmful to Ms. Lacey due to drug interactions.
I’m sorry that logic apparently has no place in your daily life. I’ll try to make this simple for you.
If you do not feel you can morally give Ms. Lacey what she needs to keep from bringing an unwanted child into the world, then pass the job off to another pharmacist. And if you feel that even this would make you party to breaking God’s law, then get a different job.
Get this through your skull: people are going to have sex whether you like it or not. Birth control is not abortion. But if people can’t use birth control pills, then they will use abortion–legally or illegally–as a form of birth control. The deaths of all of those children will be on your head.
Is that clear enough for you?
UNFORTUNATELY, the law clearly stated that the pharmacist has the right to refuse dispensing medications e.g. birth controls. The pharmacist in the story was exercising her legal rights.
If the woman must, she can go somewhere else.