xpgeek
22-03-2007, 03:05 PM
I got signed up to some newsletter for these on my spam address, and I usually just delete them, but this one caught my eye, because its an issue I feel pretty strongly about.
Tell Wal-Mart to Sell Emergency Contraception Without Humiliation or Delay
Target: H. Lee Scott, Jr., Wal-Mart President & CEO
Sponsor: NARAL Pro-Choice America
Recently, Tashina Byrd and her boyfriend tried to purchase the emergency contraception Plan B at the Springfield, Ohio Wal-Mart after their condom broke. The pharmacist not only refused to provide emergency contraception to them, but he laughed in their faces and did not get another employee to dispense it.
Plan B is simply a concentrated dose of ordinary birth-control pills that can prevent unintended pregnancy after sex.
Wal-Mart must stop discriminating against women and ensure that their pharmacies guarantee women's access to Plan B. If an individual pharmacist refuses to provide Plan B, Wal-Mart should ensure that another employee provides it immediately.
Please speak out now, so that no other woman has to go through the humiliation and anger that Tashina experienced. Send Wal-Mart President & CEO H. Lee Scott, Jr. a message urging him to improve company policy to require Wal-Mart pharmacies to fulfill requests for Plan B without intimidation, humiliation or delay.
Sign the Petition (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/800217957)
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Personal opinion here :
My added comment when singing :
Leave your religion at home and do your damn job I say, no one asked the pharmacist what he thought, hes not a doctor just cause he gets to wear a white coat, if he can't do the job then he should be fired.
This is "the morning after pill" as its more commonly called. And it is fully legal now in this country, no prescription required, but still has to be dispensed from the pharmacy for some reason. But a lot of pharmacists refuse to dispense it because their religious beliefs do not agree with it.
Now I completely respect every persons right to their religious beliefs, and I don't care what you believe in, but dispensing drugs from the pharmacy is their job! If they can't do it because of a personal conflict then they should get another job. More then just their job, it is the law! And I'm sorry but federal laws supersede religious laws.
This of course being my personal opinion and I openly welcome all to question and or debate it.
Tell Wal-Mart to Sell Emergency Contraception Without Humiliation or Delay
Target: H. Lee Scott, Jr., Wal-Mart President & CEO
Sponsor: NARAL Pro-Choice America
Recently, Tashina Byrd and her boyfriend tried to purchase the emergency contraception Plan B at the Springfield, Ohio Wal-Mart after their condom broke. The pharmacist not only refused to provide emergency contraception to them, but he laughed in their faces and did not get another employee to dispense it.
Plan B is simply a concentrated dose of ordinary birth-control pills that can prevent unintended pregnancy after sex.
Wal-Mart must stop discriminating against women and ensure that their pharmacies guarantee women's access to Plan B. If an individual pharmacist refuses to provide Plan B, Wal-Mart should ensure that another employee provides it immediately.
Please speak out now, so that no other woman has to go through the humiliation and anger that Tashina experienced. Send Wal-Mart President & CEO H. Lee Scott, Jr. a message urging him to improve company policy to require Wal-Mart pharmacies to fulfill requests for Plan B without intimidation, humiliation or delay.
Sign the Petition (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/800217957)
........
Personal opinion here :
My added comment when singing :
Leave your religion at home and do your damn job I say, no one asked the pharmacist what he thought, hes not a doctor just cause he gets to wear a white coat, if he can't do the job then he should be fired.
This is "the morning after pill" as its more commonly called. And it is fully legal now in this country, no prescription required, but still has to be dispensed from the pharmacy for some reason. But a lot of pharmacists refuse to dispense it because their religious beliefs do not agree with it.
Now I completely respect every persons right to their religious beliefs, and I don't care what you believe in, but dispensing drugs from the pharmacy is their job! If they can't do it because of a personal conflict then they should get another job. More then just their job, it is the law! And I'm sorry but federal laws supersede religious laws.
This of course being my personal opinion and I openly welcome all to question and or debate it.