shit i agree, their licenses and right to won a pharmacy should be taken away. what a bunch of morons!

Believe it or not, not everyone makes it to the end. This might work better as the opening sentence.

Oh wait...

See!? They're trying to destroy the fucking world! Being against abortion is one thing, but prevention all together?!
They want to see this planet overpopulated, gassed, farmed to a barren waste!
I swear they want the apocalypse to come.

That's a good way to lose a lot of business, fast.
Even though I'm not on any form of birth control, I wouldn't take any of my prescriptions there anymore.

Sometimes I think there might be a sensible message in your articles, but then I read the OMG ALL THIS IS MOTIVATED BY HATRED OF WOMEN part and remember that the odds on what I'm reading being remotely representative of the facts is terribly slim, and I can't believe a word you've written, because you've been proven to be so blindingly biased so many times. I really, really, think you would reach a much bigger audience, and find a much more receptive audience, if you could just sit down, do some research, and do your best to write a balanced article.

It is an issue of property rights. A woman can do what she wishes with her body. A pharmacist can do what he or she wishes with his or her pharmacy.

Should we also complain that vegetarians refuse to sell meat in their grocery stores?

If this pharmacist is willing to have business suffer at the expense of some idiotic moral ideal, then by all fucking means. Yeah, it's inconvient for the women who had been purchasing their birth control there, but since when does anyone have a right to convienence?

Furthermore, having a license to do something does not meannyou have to do it.

Pharmacists are a component of drug regulation, not a business in the normal sense. The government restricts RX only drugs, making them impossible to just get. To allow the citizenry to maintain access to the controlled medications which they need, doctors send patients to pharmacists, which are more or less licensed dispatch centers for the government regulated goods. The doctor makes the call on what medication the patients need, the patients receive it via the pharmacy. The middleman does not get a say in the health of an individual. A better analogy to your vegan grocer would be that allowing a pharmacy to withhold treatment is rather like a nurse who refuses to medicate the patient as the doctor has ordered.

For the most part I agree fully with rampage121584... however, looking at both sides of the issue, I think you could make a case that refusing to fill a prescription constitutes practicing medicine without a medical license.

couldn't have said it better myself

If we allow a Southern Baptist-run pharmacy to withhold birth control, maybe we should start licensing Scientologist pharmacists to withhold anti-depressants, or licensing Christian scientists to withhold everything but holy water.

I disagree with their choice, I agree with anyone who would do longer shop there- but I completely disagree with the notion that it would be a good thing for the state to take away their license.

The law and politics are sledgehammers. Simple social and market action can be more of a scalpel, and accomplish the same results far more gracefully. If you're afraid to allow this individual to be censured through other people's individual choices, it implies to me that you have very little respect for personal freedom... except when it suits you.

which ENTIRELY neglects the issue that someone outside of a major city might only have access to a single pharmacy.

No, withholding treatment is just completely unethical. If they want to impose their religious ethics, the should have become pastors or politicians.

Okay. I am finished.