Target response...

[madeline_con]

I signed the petiton:

Contact Target and insist that every woman's pills be filled - now!

http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/fillmypillsnow_target

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And this is what I got back:

"Target.Response" <[e-mail]>

Dear Target Guest,

Target is extremely disappointed that Planned Parenthood is spreading misleading information about an alleged incident at a Target pharmacy in Missouri and our policies on emergency contraception. The accounts being reported are inaccurate and exaggerated. Our policy is comparable to that of many other national retailers and the recommendations of the American Pharmacists Association.

Target consistently ensures that prescriptions for emergency contraception are filled. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we also are legally required to accommodate our team members’ sincerely held religious beliefs as required by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In the unusual event that a Target pharmacist’s sincerely held religious beliefs conflict with filling a guest’s prescription for emergency contraception, Target policy requires our pharmacists to take responsibility for ensuring that the guest’s prescription is filled in a timely and respectful manner. If it is not done in this manner, disciplinary action will be taken.

Target abides by all state and local laws and, in the event that other laws conflict with our policy, we will follow the law.

We appreciate the opportunity to clarify our position and correct misinformation.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Hanson
Target Executive Offices


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Gee, as long as we don't encounter a pharmacist who maybe doesn't FEEL like filling our Rx, we'll get it done!!! :mad:

[Catch22Dem]

1. Sounds like the pharmacist is required to fill regardless of beliefs

How fucking stupid is that anyway? Don't take a job where your idiotic belief structure will conflict w/ your duties!

I wanna be a vet, but I don't believe in touching cloven hooved animals. Oh, and I'm a dumbfuck. Hope that's not a problem.

[Jack from Charlotte]

5. LOL! You nailed it.*

[sharp_stick]

2. According to my local Target pharmacist

They will get another pharmacist into the store to fill the prescription while you wait.

She, nor her coworkers, have any problems filling any prescription they are faced with but this was the remedy that they had been told to expect if it ever happened.

BTW, I was the 3rd person to ask about this policy this week.

[Der Blaue Engel]

3. What a bunch of crap!

Title VII has nothing fucking whatsoever to do with using your religious beliefs to endanger patients.

Are they going to "accommodate" the Christian Scientist pharmacist when he refuses to dispense any drugs to anyone?

[Sal Minella]

4. A Christian Scientist pharmacist couldn't sell anti-bacterial soap,

right? Because bacteria don't exist.