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| Thursday, December 1, 2005 05:55 PM |
| Dear Ed Martin |
| by poppy |
I find many things "pretty disturbing" about your clients claim that they have the right to disobey state law because it violates their religious beliefs. What about my right to have the medical decisions made by my doctor/practitioner and myself respected? What about my right to decide on the morality by which I will live? And, not for nothing, what about my right to be cared for by pharmicists that not only respect me and my decisions, but are well educated enough to understand the mechanisms by which my prescribed drug actually works?
I suppose I simply want people who willingly choose to be part of a profession be willing to perform all of the duties of that profession when called upon. If you have strong moral objections, choose another career. I sure don't want a Jehovah's Witness* filling a script for my anti-clotting factor, and I don't want a misguided person of any faith lecturing me on my birth control choices. While I applaud Walgreen's action in this instance, I am a bit disheartened that the only reason they suspended them was because it went directly against state law; the spokesperson said they would be happy to find the offenders Walgreen jobs in a state that did not have such a law. I am heartened however to hear that my new pharmacy of choice, Eckerd, is more broad in its interpretation of appropriate action toward people who refuse to do their job.
*I sure do hope the Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones that are weird about the blood products, otherwise I'm an ass. |
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