Wyoming Pharmacy Board Drops Plan To Let Druggists Refuse HIV Meds To Gays

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/01/011206hiv.htm

The Wyoming Pharmacy Board has tabled a controversial proposal that would have given pharmacists the authority not to fill prescriptions based on their personal beliefs.

The rule would have required pharmacists who choose not to fill prescriptions, based on their personal beliefs, to refer patients to druggists who would provide the medication.

But many who protested the proposed rule said it could cause hardship for patients because of the limited number of pharmacies in rural areas.

Critics of the proposed rule said it would have allowed pharmacists to deny birth control pills or emergency contraception to women.

[MountainLaurel]

1. Good for them!

I think one thing that keeps getting forgotten in this "conscience clause" debate is that it is not limited to the "abortion pill," the morning-after pill, or birth control, but has the potential to be much broader, including everything from HIV meds to antidepressants.

[rodeodance]

2. shameful that they even considered it !

[w13rd0]

3. Can you imagine...

...a Scientologist or Christian Scientist Pharmacist? They could refuse to fill any prescriptions, then when they are fired for not doing their job, claim religious persecution based on this "conscience clause". Utter bullshit from the right-wing once again.

[GodlessBiker]

4. Un-fucking believable!

Based on their personal beliefs? Personal beliefs on what? That sick people should not get medicine? How would they determine if a person with a prescription for an AIDS medication were gay? Would they sell aspirin to gay people with AIDS? Would they fill prescriptions for straight people with AIDS? Do they fill prescriptions of convicted felons? Do they sell condoms to prostitutes?

This proposal was totally asinine.

[pocoloco]

5. Explain why this is not

practicing medicine without a license?

[BR_Parkway]

6. Would they have been allowed to refuse HIV meds to straight

people?

[sui generis]

7. of course

HIV is immoral doncha know. If you kill the carrier you kill the disease, and THAT's moral.

The people who propose this crap are sick in the head.

Their "personal beliefs"???? I would have stretched that to the breaking point. I would be asking people whether or not they were babtist before I gave them their scrip. Excuse me, I see you have been married for over a year and yet you don't have children. Sorry, marriage without procreation is immoral.

anyway the real problem is exactly what you noticed: you have to presume gayness. Any time you want to discriminate against someone for being gay. You have to presume, without proof, that they are gay, or that they are lying when they say they are not.

[xchrom]

8. lol -- when have people had a hard time ''presuming'' that some one is gay

;)

[HockeyMom]

9. Some pharmacists refusing to dispense mood stabilizers

and pain meds because of their "religious" beliefs. Wish I had saved the link. Was a piece by the AMA.

Welcome to the 14th Century.

[triakis36]

10. That is a disgusting proposal, and I'm glad it didn't go through.

But I'm concerned about the comment that "In some states, pharmacists have refused to give patients doctor-prescribed medication..." Maybe we aren't holding pharmacists to the same Hippocratic standards as we should be. That is to "promise to treat the sick and to prevent disease whenever <they> can". That many have failed to do so, and other's have propositioned on the flimsy excuse of "personal beliefs" is abhorrent and nothing short of condemning the innocent to death and/or suffering.