Wednesday, October 31, 2007
GREEN MARTYRDOM
The Pope recently called upon all pharmacists to refuse to dispense drugs that will effect abortion and euthanasia.
The opposition's argument is spelled out in this San Jose Mercury News editorial:
...pharmacists throughout the world have a moral obligation to their patients and should ignore the pontiff's plea....
...what next? Will the pope demand that pharmacists be required to ask women seeking fertility drugs if they are married?...
The state of Washington in April joined California in passing a policy that prohibits pharmacists from failing to dispense prescription drugs for religious or moral reasons....
A handful of states, including Georgia and South Dakota, have joined the president in allowing pharmacists to follow their consciences at the workplace.
That should be viewed as unacceptable...
Pharmacists who cannot bring themselves to fill a perscription for moral or religious reasons should find a new profession.
In other words, it is more important that the person seeking immoral drugs have access to them instantly than it is for a pharmacist to follow his religious beliefs. Convenience trumps conscience and the pharmacist who will not dispense some drugs should simply be pushed out of the way like an annoying fly buzzing around and making a nuisance of itself, because we have been conditioned to have it our way here in America, and damn the consequences.
