Walgreen Co., the nation's largest drugstore chain by revenue, said it has put four Illinois pharmacists in the St. Louis area on unpaid leave for refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception in violation of a state rule.
The four cited religious or moral objections to filling prescriptions for the morning-after pill and "have said they would like to maintain their right to refuse to dispense, and in Illinois that is not an option," Walgreen spokeswoman Tiffani Bruce said.
This is a rediculous argument to me. If you are a phamacist you fill prescriptions. Period!
You don't get to proselytize or cram your religious beliefs down the patients throat. You are a fucking clerk!
What if you ordered a BLT from a Jewish waitress? Does she get to refuse to serve you because her faith forbids the eating of pork? No she does not!
So dispense the pills or get another job!
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And, AND...there's a state statute. Incredible. Wonder if they can be prosecuted?
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