Fill My Pills Now
Does your local pharmacy refuse to fill perscriptions based on religious beliefs of the pharmacist?
Here is a letter I wrote to Target after receiving an update email from Planned Parenthood:
Dear Target,
As a consumer, I expect your pharmacies to guarantee women the right to obtain their prescriptions -- in-store, without delay or personal judgment.
I shop regularly at my local Target store and even registered for my bridal shower with your company. I cannot continue to shop at a store that does not fill legal perscriptions.
Pharmacists have the right to their own opinions, but not to discriminate. It is no more appropirate to ask a customer to get their perscription elsewhere because of the worker's religious beliefs than it is to refuse to serve a customer due to racism.
Why does your company hire workers who can refuse to perform their job? Do you hire stockboys who can refuse to work on friday nights because it is a date night? Do you hire cashiers who refuse to "check-out" customers who are of a different belief system? I see this as a slippery slope where Catholic cashiers can refuse to let customers purchase condoms, Mormons refuse purchases of coffee, and Muslims refuse purchase of pork products.
Target should do the right thing (and the economic one!) and hire people that do the job they were hired to do. If the company as a whole wishes to support a religious method of business decisions, do not carry birth control or condoms or anything else that may be offensive to the workers. Then it can be a simple explanation of why you don't fill legal perscriptions. You simply don't carry that product. One worker on duty refusing to take the legal product off the shelf and charge the customer for it does not make sense.
I don't agree with a religious exception for pharmacists to refuse legal perscriptions because they think it shouldn't be legal. Cops can't ticket you for doing something legal if they personally disagree with it. Realtors can't encourage discriminatory housing by only selling certain houses to African-Americans (or any other group). Why should pharmacists get a free ride? If you disagree with your profession, get a new job. If you want to work for a place that only follows your religious rules, go work for a church. The next time you go to the hospital look out, a doctor might decide he has a newly found faith in a religion that doesn't believe in blood transfusion, and you might bleed to death on the table.
Here is a letter I wrote to Target after receiving an update email from Planned Parenthood:
Dear Target,
As a consumer, I expect your pharmacies to guarantee women the right to obtain their prescriptions -- in-store, without delay or personal judgment.
I shop regularly at my local Target store and even registered for my bridal shower with your company. I cannot continue to shop at a store that does not fill legal perscriptions.
Pharmacists have the right to their own opinions, but not to discriminate. It is no more appropirate to ask a customer to get their perscription elsewhere because of the worker's religious beliefs than it is to refuse to serve a customer due to racism.
Why does your company hire workers who can refuse to perform their job? Do you hire stockboys who can refuse to work on friday nights because it is a date night? Do you hire cashiers who refuse to "check-out" customers who are of a different belief system? I see this as a slippery slope where Catholic cashiers can refuse to let customers purchase condoms, Mormons refuse purchases of coffee, and Muslims refuse purchase of pork products.
Target should do the right thing (and the economic one!) and hire people that do the job they were hired to do. If the company as a whole wishes to support a religious method of business decisions, do not carry birth control or condoms or anything else that may be offensive to the workers. Then it can be a simple explanation of why you don't fill legal perscriptions. You simply don't carry that product. One worker on duty refusing to take the legal product off the shelf and charge the customer for it does not make sense.
I don't agree with a religious exception for pharmacists to refuse legal perscriptions because they think it shouldn't be legal. Cops can't ticket you for doing something legal if they personally disagree with it. Realtors can't encourage discriminatory housing by only selling certain houses to African-Americans (or any other group). Why should pharmacists get a free ride? If you disagree with your profession, get a new job. If you want to work for a place that only follows your religious rules, go work for a church. The next time you go to the hospital look out, a doctor might decide he has a newly found faith in a religion that doesn't believe in blood transfusion, and you might bleed to death on the table.
posted by two bits @ 4:37 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home