Walmart uses Georgia ‘conscience clause’ to refuse woman’s miscarriage treatment.

[Snarkoleptic]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/walmart-uses-georgia-conscience-clause-to-refuse-womans-miscarriage-treatment/

Sorry, no scrip for you! My invisible sky friend might get upset.

Her doctor recommended she take the drug after she miscarried about five weeks into her pregnancy, enabling her to avoid undergoing a more invasive procedure. But Misoprostol can also be used with Mifepristone to end a pregnancy in its early stages. She suspects that it was for that reason that the store refused her prescription without providing a reason.

While she was able to obtain the medication somewhere else, she brought the issue up again when visiting the store to fill out a separate prescription.

“She looks at my name and she says ‘Oh, well, I couldn’t think of a valid reason why you would need this prescription,’” Cartrett said. “I tell her my reasons for needing it, and she says ‘Well, I don’t feel like there is a reason why you would need it, so we refused to fill it.’”

[Daemonaquila]

1. Time to hound that "pharmacist" into professional oblivion.

Ethics complaint. Publicizing her name, address, etc. Shaming her all over social media. Don't like those tactics? Time to buck up. The right wing has destroyed countless good people with that. It's time to play it right back, and start drumming these freaks out of their professions.

[Snarkoleptic]

4. I'd much rather "punch up" than "punch down" to resolve somthing like this.

Attacking the pharmacist is wrong, won't get the job done and may result in some jeebus-based "go fund me" campaign, which will ensure martyrdom.
The way to get this corrected is to shame the elected officials into doing the right thing.

[MrModerate]

19. I halfway disagree . . .

Based on context, it sounds like the pharmacist was power-tripping in a very personal way, and needs to be instructed about the difference between the pharmacist's role and the doctor's role.

And management needs to be whacked over the head for allowing such sanctimonious snots to bully people, apparently with their blessing.

[Snarkoleptic]

22. Power-tripping...yes, most certainly, but

what enabled this is the Georgia ‘conscience clause’.
This law must be challenged directly at it's source as this incident is merely a symptom.

[Panich52]

30. Power trip is right. Pharmacist didn't even mention 'conscience clause,' just opinion of med use.

If she'd asked about other meds, such as to avoid negative interaction, she'd have found out about whether or not a termination was the goal. So while Walmart may use 'conscience clause’ to defend pharma's actions, it's a false defense (as if any rational person thinks theocrats should interfere w/ people's medical decisions).

[Sparhawk60]

33. The Doctor Determines Need

A thousands times this!


‘Well, I don’t feel like there is a reason why you would need it, so we refused to fill it.’”


That is the doctor's role. Once the doctor determines the need, the pharmacist fills the prescription, while insuring there are no harmful side affects from interacting with other drugs.

[AndyTiedye]

31. That is Not Possible

The way to get this corrected is to shame the elected officials into doing the right thing.

But they have no shame.

[ncjustice80]

32. Bringing down some right wing pharmacist is punching up.

She needs to be brought to personal ruin and made an example of.

[dsc]

2. she should pull all her perscriptions from that store immediately

as should the rest of us. If a store carries a drug, and apparently they do carry this one, then they have no business at all giving the drug to some but not others.

[yeoman6987]

3. Do they carry the drug?

[dsc]

5. It sounds like they do

given that what the pharmacist said was we don't think you should have it vs we don't sell it to anyone.

[Snarkoleptic]

6. If the conversation with the pharmacist is accuately depicted, then yes.

‘Oh, well, I couldn’t think of a valid reason why you would need this prescription,’
and
‘Well, I don’t feel like there is a reason why you would need it, so we refused to fill it.’

These are quotes attributed to the pharmacist.

[LeftyMom]

11. Even then, pharmacies usually offer to order in a drug they don't stock.

I've had to do that twice. Nobody asked me *why* I needed it (that was my doctor's call) they only offered to get it in for me in two days.

[niyad]

12. well, that is what an ethical, non-religious nutbar pharmacist does.

[niyad]

7. the pharmacist does not get to override the DOCTOR!!

I wasn't aware that it is the job of the pharmacist to decided whether a prescription is needed or not. especially when the "criteria" are not medically based.

this person's license needs to be yanked. these damned "conscience clauses" need to go. don't want to do part of your job? want to do something that ISN'T your job??? time to find another job, preferably in a field where you have no impact on the rest of us.

[gratuitous]

8. niyad speaks for me

It is not the pharmacist's job to substitute his or her personal opinion for the medical direction of the doctor. If a pharmacist wants to practice medicine, hang up your smock and go enroll in medical school.

[calimary]

16. And me. If you can't bear part of your job, find a different one.

[gollygee]

18. +100000

"I couldn't think of a valid reason . . ."

THE DOCTOR PRESCRIBED IT !!!! That is the valid reason, and all you need to know.

[Kip Humphrey]

9. Pharmacist playing doctor... Reason #37 I never shop at Walmart.

[niyad]

10. it isn't just wal-mart, though. these damned fundie pharmacists are all over the place, and

protected by these damned "conscience clauses".

[Kber]

36. Playing Doctor? More like playing God.

She was totally out of line in all regards.

[In_The_Wind]

13. Clearly, the ‘conscience clause’ needs to be changed.

Cartrett told WGXA, “So we made the decision to not do a D&C and to get a medicine. So he said I’m going to give you this medicine, you’ll take it, and it will help you to pass naturally so that you don’t have to go the more invasive route.”

When the doctor’s office called the Georgia Walmart to fill the prescription, they were told no and were not given a reason.

http://samuel-warde.com/2015/04/walmart-pharmacist-refused-to-fill-prescription-for-woman-who-miscarried-video/

[A Little Weird]

14. Everyone should move their perscriptions from Walmart

If enough people put pressure on the company then maybe they will make sure they hire pharmacists without that believe in science rather than fairytales. Obviously their are lunatic pharmacists at other institutions too but Walmart has a big enough influence that they could make a difference if they change their policies. I know that's hoping for a lot from the evil empire . . .

[Snarkoleptic]

25. Moreover, every liberal should avoid Walmart whenever possible.

For some, a boycott is not an option, but anyone who has the means, a full tilt Walmart boycott should be a no-brainer.

[niyad]

34. I have been boycotting wally world for nearly twenty years. you could not GIVE me the entire

contents of that evil place.

and yes, I do know that in some areas, people really have few, if any, other options. my heart breaks for them.

[progressoid]

15. Reason #72953 not to go to Walmart.

[Omaha Steve]

17. K&R!

[dflprincess]

20. The only time a pharmacist has any business questioning a prescription is

when s/he knows the patient has been prescribed a drug that does not mix with other ones the patient is taking.

[Snarkoleptic]

23. I'm visualising the retort, in a monotone with vacant eyes...

"I didn't refuse to fill the scrip, Jeebus did this through me."

[ManiacJoe]

27. I am open to the option of an "exorcism" to remove Jeebus.

[blkmusclmachine]

21. god god god god god god god god god god god god god god god god god god god god god god god god god

[mountain grammy]

24. Bullshit, the corporation needs to be called out on this..

formal complaints, whatever. Pharmacists who won't do their job should be fired.

[still_one]

26. Does Walmart serve the public? How is it legal for them to refuse to fill a prescription?

[ManiacJoe]

28. The law contains the "conscience clause".

[still_one]

29. So can the conscience law also discriminate with regard to religion and race?

[niyad]

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