'Pro-Life' Drugstores Market Beliefs-No Contraceptives For Chantilly Shop

[babylonsister]

'Pro-Life' Drugstores Market Beliefs
No Contraceptives For Chantilly Shop

By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 16, 2008; Page A01


When DMC Pharmacy opens this summer on Route 50 in Chantilly, the shelves will be stocked with allergy remedies, pain relievers, antiseptic ointments and almost everything else sold in any drugstore. But anyone who wants condoms, birth control pills or the Plan B emergency contraceptive will be turned away.

That's because the drugstore, located in a typical shopping plaza featuring a Ruby Tuesday, a Papa John's and a Kmart, will be a "pro-life pharmacy" -- meaning, among other things, that it will eschew all contraceptives.

The pharmacy is one of a small but growing number of drugstores around the country that have become the latest front in a conflict pitting patients' rights against those of health-care workers who assert a "right of conscience" to refuse to provide care or products that they find objectionable.

"The United States was founded on the idea that people act on their conscience -- that they have a sense of right and wrong and do what they think is right and moral," said Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel at the Thomas More Society, a Chicago public-interest law firm that is defending a pharmacist who was fined and reprimanded for refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control pills. "Every pharmacist has the right to do the same thing," Brejcha said.

But critics say the stores could create dangerous obstacles for women seeking legal, safe and widely used birth control methods.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/15/AR2008061502180.html

[Fuzz]

1. No anti-biotics?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Why not go one step further: Free Baby with every purchase of chewing gum.

[MountainLaurel]

3. Don't give them any ideas n/t

[raccoon]

4. I suppose these rabid pro-lifers think that a hand job should be at least a misdemeanor?

:sarcasm:

[Carnea]

5. Honestly I have had it up to here with all drugstores not just this weird

cult run ones...

A: Can someone fucking take my money hello this looks like a cash register are there actually employees in the store...

B: They sell homeopathic remedies in the same aisle as real medicine and occasionally illiterate people who are sick pick up said medicine and don't realize till they get home they just spent 8 dollars for medical gummi bears. And with the price of gas what it is the question is should we through them out or bother to return them.

C: as for DMC pharmacy if I see one employee with a Cotton blend shirt I'm dragging them out of the store and smashing their head in with a rock... hey the bible told me to.*

* Where in the New Testament does it talk about birth control pills??????

[Sal Minella]

6. What a relief. The crazy Phundie Pharmacists can get jobs in places where they can pass personal

moral judgments on each and every prescription presented to them.

I hope these "pharmacies" have big warning signs on the doors for the unsuspecting public who expect pharmacists to fill prescriptions.

[MountainLaurel]

8. That's just it: They don't

Pharmacists at eight pro-life drugstores contacted by The Washington Post said they would not actively interfere with a woman trying to fill a prescription elsewhere, but none posts signs announcing restrictions or offers to help women get what they need elsewhere.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Wow! That guy looks exactly like a Mini-Rove!

He also looks like he's never had sex in his entire life, so I can see why he thinks birth-control isn't all that important of a product...

[PA Democrat]

9. I didn't see any mention of Viagra. Will they sell Viagra?

[Mad_Dem_X]

16. Good question

I bet they do. BTW, I never understood the anti-contraceptives thing. If you want to lower the number of unintended pregnancies/abortions, wouldn't you encourage the use of contraceptives? Or isn't *anyone* supposed to have sex (even married couples) unless they want a baby???

[Scout]

21. that question was asked in the article, but they didn't print the asshole's answer! n/t

[sutz12]

10. Actually, America was founded on smuggling and slavery...

How long 'til we bring those beauties back?

:shrug:

[Scout]

20. they never left! n/t

[tjwash]

11. Holy shit. The last time I saw someone THAT pasty and pale in a suit, he was lying in a coffin.

nt

[LeftinOH]

12. I hope they aren't going to sell the lip-sticks and face-paints...only harlots use that stuff!!

[MountainLaurel]

13. Now, now, it depends on the church

In some, wearing makeup is verboten because of the harlot thing. But in other churches it's encourage because otherwise women might look too much like men, and that's bad.

[jmowreader]

17. That guy needs to

That may be the palest individual I have ever seen. He needs something...a little makeup, a trip to Jamaica, to get laid...something.

[High Plains]

14. They're just begging for organized boycotts.

Or maybe just people with signs warning potential customers their pharmacists are zealots.

[AlCzervik]

15. but he'll stock stiffy pills! Maybe if you need those it's a sign from your God that

you shouldn't be having pro creation relations anymore.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

18. Well, they're not harming anyone.

I wouldn't shop at such a place, but no-one is being forced to. And, hell, I don't sell people birth control either.

[Scout]

19. unless they're the only pharmacy in town, then you ARE forced to shop there, duh n/t

[yardwork]

22. Drugstores don't operate in vacuums. If this drugstore puts the others out of business

then they've effectively stopped women in that town from accessing healthcare.

Drugstores are in the healthcare business. It's one thing to limit people's access to useless widgets. It's quite another to limit their access to life-saving medications. And before you argue, check out the figures on women who die of complications from pregnancy. If your daughter was raped and needed emergency contraceptive, and she was denied it by the only pharmacist in town and later died from complications of her pregnancy, I doubt you'd see this as a minor issue.

[supernova]

24. Also there are other reasons women take the pill

besides birth control: control of acne, debilitating periods/PMS.

It's not up to the pharmacist to decide that she's taking it for the "wrong" reasons. Her reasons, whatever they are, are the RIGHT reasons. Period.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. That's debatable.

And no, I'm not insinuating that you sell birth control.

[yardwork]

23. Does this mean that soldiers can refuse to participate in Iraq?

"The United States was founded on the idea that people act on their conscience -- that they have a sense of right and wrong and do what they think is right and moral," said Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel at the Thomas More Society, a Chicago public-interest law firm that is defending a pharmacist who was fined and reprimanded for refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control pills. "Every pharmacist has the right to do the same thing," Brejcha said.