Should pharmacists be forced to dispense Plan B?
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on July 10th, 2009 in Emotional Issues, Health Care Policy, In The News, Linked Articles.
The controversy over Plan B is playing out in the courts, but what about other issues of conscience in health care?
Certainly we all want the right to make individual choices and the right to live by our own conscience, but when we get into the issue of health care, things get sticky. If our pharmacists have moral objections to other treatments that our doctors prescribe, will they be allowed to refuse to dispense them? Will they withhold information? How and when will we be made aware of our pharmacists’ objections to our prescribed treatment?
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July 18th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Personally, I think if one pharmacist does not feel comfortable dispensing the medication, another one should be able to dispense the medication. I think it should not be a primary form of birth control and some kind of counseling should be required if the medication is dispensed. I don’t believe in abortion, but that’s my decision and feelings. I don’t push my beliefs on other people. Everyone has a right to make their own decisions in life.