Religion
In reply to the discussion: Religion poses workplace challenges [View all]cbayer
(146,218 posts)in their programs. Hence, you have physicians that have not been properly trained and are not qualified to perform the procedure.
An OB-GYN's job description may not include abortion, so they are doing their job.
There are also neurosurgeons who only do backs. It's a personal choice. They are fully trained to do brains, they just don't want to.
There are cosmetic surgeons who don't do trauma work. Again, trained to do it, but don't want to.
Physicians limit their practices in all sorts of way and it's their right to do so. Where is the requirement that they do everything they are capable of doing?
As to pharmacists, I have mixed feelings about this. I think this is most likely between the owner and the pharmacist. If the job description includes providing the morning after pill and the employee refuses, the employee will likely be fired. If the owner refuses to carry it, and they are the only one available in an area, that creates a different dilemma.