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MRT144
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Seattle Washington
Oct 2002
time: 21:29
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bk, thats if you believe preventing implantation on the uteran wall is abortion.
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Adam Smith
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Maryland, USA
Jan 1970
time: 00:29
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Originally posted by Boris Godunov Name me one law that requires an employer to accomodate an employee's religious beliefs to the extent that it renders the employee incapable of doing the designated job. That is not required of employers whatsoever. |
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Originally posted by KrazyHorseReligious objections to duties reasonably within the scope of an employee's job description are not a valid excuse for failing to carry them out. |
Two examples I am aware of.
1. Prior to Roe v. Wade, many medical facilities did not provide abortions. After Roe v. Wade these faciilities were required to make abortion procedures available, but many Catholic doctors refused to perform the procedure in spite of their explicit or implicit employment contracts. Many states passed conscience laws under which doctors could not be forced to perform procedures against their conscience, even if they had an existing contract. I can't believe nobody mentioned this.
2. In college I worked evenings and weekends at a hobby shop (best job I ever had  ). Maryland had Blue Laws at the time, and the store was closed on Sundays. When the Blue Laws were repealed, an additional law was passed requiring employers to accomodate employees who did not wish to to work on Sunday (or Friday, or Saturday, depending on your belief).
In both cases the motivating factor was the same: a change in the laws that affected existing explicit or implicit terms of employment. I suspect the same is true with pharmacists. Morning after pills were not legally available, or reasonably expected to be legally available, at the time the pharmacists entered into their employment contracts. Here are at least two precedents for making reasonable accomodation instead of firing the @#$%^&*'s as many of you claim should be done.
I won't defend a pharmacist's refusal to return the perscription to the patient. And I suspect some pharmacists objections to selling contraception is a case of "in for a dime, in for a dollar." Perhaps some of you would feel more comfortable with more time-tested tactics such as boycotting pharmacies and sitting in at lunch counters. 
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Gatekeeper
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United States of America
Feb 2000
time: 23:29
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The real losers in all of this are women in rural America, who oftentimes have but one pharmacy to go to in a very large geographic area. Should that pharmacy refuse to fill a prescription for birth control, morning-after and whatnot, they're screwed.
In a part of the story not available at 'Poly, it went into detail about a poor, married couple who were making love. The husband's condom broke and, in desperation, they went to a pharmacy. They were refused, and by the time they managed to locate a willing pharmacy, the 72-hour window had passed. By the grace of God, the wife didn't become pregnant ... but what is she had? Her husband and her did everything right, and yet an outside force (in this case, a recalcitrant pharmacist) playing God could very well have seriously ****ed up their lives.
It's not right. It's as simple as that.
Gatekeeper
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29-03-2005 08:06
it should be a sacrament.
@ thread since I last read it
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