Will Contraceptives Disappear From Pharmacies? »
Posted By hurr1 3 months ago in NewsAll pharmacies should stock contraceptives. It's hard to believe, but some drugstores refuse to stock birth control pills, the morning-after pill and even condoms. Pharmacies in entire regions could follow suit, leaving patrons with no place to buy contraceptives for miles.
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libsRfunny3 months ago
Contraceptives and birth control pills are not the same things. You can buy contraceptives at truck stops, bars and gas stations. You can't get legally prescribed birth control pills anywhere but a pharmacy.
If pharmacy owners don't want to stock them, that is their right as private owners of businesses. Forcing them to do so is an infringement on their right of free speech at the very least.
I have little doubt that many pharmacists would be quite happy to continue supplying legally prescribed birth control.
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Gransater3 months ago
I disagree. The owner of the pharmacy does not have the right to withold a legally available prescription of any kind to anyone, period.
I understand about free speech, but it is also the customers right to ignore someones opinion, no matter how good the intentions may be.
A pharmacy provides a product that is restricted to other bussiness establishements that do not carry a license that allows presciptions. As such, providing a product with limited distribution, that affects the health of an individual, a prescription, approved by a licensed physician and the particular state where the establishment is located, as being legal for sale, should have no right whatsoever to refuse the sale.
To take this to a ridiculous extreme, what will happen if a pharmacy can sell only items approved by the owner. What other products can he whithold? Where do we draw the line, if any? What are the long term consequences to society?
I'm all for personal freedom, but, not at the expense of others.
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memestryker3 months ago
We need to be diligent about providing birth control and morning after medication to women. Pharmacies should have someone on staff who is willing to provide all the medications people might request. They should not have a pharmacy license if they are not willing to fill all prescriptions.
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MajJohn3 months ago
Then what your saying is in order to have a license to operate a business you must sell what the government tells you to sell even if it goes against your conscious. What happened to freedom of religion? Are we only free to practice our faith behind closed doors? If you're a grocer you can not refuse to sell non kosher products? Do you have to sell cigarettes or alcoholic products just so someone would not be inconvenienced being made to go elsewhere? What about freedom of commerce?
In a liberal society where everything goes no matter whose constitutional rights you trample on, then go ahead, promote your brand of totalitarianism.
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memestryker2 months, 4 weeks ago
Healthcare is a special case. Most of these medications are also used for other "female" medical issues and are also used to save the lives of women. But you don't care about women's lives, only fetal tissue. Your brand of totalitarianism.
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willottica3 months ago
Contraceptives should not only be removed from stores, they should be made illegal. Selling them just encourages minors and unmarried people to have sex. That's adultery. Married people don't use birth control. Every sperm is sacred, and the rhythm method is foolproof (when used exclusively by married people).
God gave us free will, so we have to be careful to leave the choice of when a child is conceived up to him.
Isn't this the Catholic churches stand on contraceptives? Will they ever join the 21st century?
I've never quite understood this: God gave us free will - and if it's God's will that we should conceive a child, who are we to say otherwise? (uh, the people he specifically gave free will to, by our own beliefs?)
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Dionys3 months ago
"Contraceptives should not only be removed from stores, they should be made illegal. Selling them just encourages minors and unmarried people to have sex. That's adultery."
Well. Technically, according to the Bible, Adultery is a married woman having relations with a man outside of marriage. Nothing else.
Yes the Catholic Church takes that official stance, but Catholics do not follow that guidance as a rule.
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mesodude3 months ago
"Contraceptives should not only be removed from stores, they should be made illegal. Selling them just encourages minors and unmarried people to have sex. That's adultery"
--LOL ;-x
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Wolfie20073 months ago
I don't think you can force pharmacists to provide services, after all, they are businesses not government agencies. I believe they have the right to conduct business as they wish. I doubt that this policy, by these few pharmacies, will effect a whole region. That claim is just hyperbole.
I stand somewhere in between memstryker and willottica. Oh geez, does that make me a moderate? lol
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Tangent0013 months ago
State pharmacy boards provide licenses for Pharmacies and Pharmacists, so the state CAN have a say in what the shop does or does not do. Business in general also do NOT have carte blanche to do whatever they want. Refusing service based on skin color, for example, is illegal.
Refusing to sell birth control could be certainly seen as discrimination based on lifestyle choice.
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Mdiar3 months ago
Willotica was being sarcastic, though. I agree with you regarding things that can be obtained elsewhere, Wolfie, like condoms. But when it comes to legally prescribed medications that can only be obtained via a pharmacy, then I believe the pharmacy has a duty to find a way to supply them with it even if it is only pointing them in the direction of a pharmacy that stocks it.
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PsychoHosebeast3 months ago
Uhhh... private business? I'd like to see a law telling someone they HAVE to sell something. One drug store I go to sells Pepsi. Another has no soft drinks. How dare they.
Another smoke-blowing article, and I'm not sure how much more my ass can take. As always, if the store doesn't have what you want, then shift all your business to one that does. Pretty easy.
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globalwarmer3 months ago
Coming to a small town near you. I wouldn't worry too much, there's always the internet. Doesn't Wall Mart have a pharmacy? The funny thing is, the article made it sound like it was sweeping the nation.
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Will13133 months ago
I personally don't care.. I had a vasectomy in 1976...
course there's still that STD thing.... wrap that rascal...
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ARRAY3 months ago
The state has the authority to tell pharmacies what to sell only if that authority is set forth in law. It will be interesting to see how all of this will be interpreted by the courts.
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lovemylibs3 months ago
FTA:
"Stop "pro-life" pharmacies before they sweep the nation. Nip this national health care problem in the bud. Please tell the Virginia Board of Pharmacy to require pharmacies in its state to keep contraceptives on their shelves."
I didn't know there was even a Vagina Board of Pharmacy.
Seriously, how many of you think this concept will "sweep the nation"? It's about choices. The business stocks what they choose, the customer buys what they choose. If the business doesn't have what the customer wants, they will choose to go elsewhere.
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danielistical3 months ago
they have a licence to fill perscriptions not to judge people,, refuse to fill a bona-fide doctors persription lose you'r license, and the religeious nuts thought it was complicated
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Skyelette3 months ago
Since abortion is a legal and very beneficial procedure, pharmacies should stock do-it-yourself abortion kits in addition to contraceptives. There are too many absolutely worthless humans on this planet already.
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