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mycybertuffet;
--------"Reprinted from this link:
"In a draft of a proposed Federal rule, the Bush administration wants to require all recipients of aid under federal health programs to certify that they will not refuse to hire nurses and other providers who object to abortion and even certain types of birth control. Hospitals, clinics, researchers and medical schools would have to sign “written certifications” that they won't discriminate in any way against people or institutions that oppose abortion or some forms of birth control or refuse to perform them. This includes oral contraception and emergency contraception and is apparently an attempt by the radical religious right to classify oral contraception as abortion. Naturally, the Bush administration is eager to help out.
So, the inner city women's clinic employee who refuses to talk to patients about birth control? Can't touch her. The hospital pharmacist who refuses to fill prescriptions for birth control? She can't be fired or disciplined. The doctor who refuses to give emergency contraception to a rape victim for "religious reasons?" Give that man a promotion."
These regulations are set to be put into practice next week. Here's your petition: http://www.hillpac.com/action/hhspetition/"
I don't have a problem with anti-abortionists having rights. I have a problem with them taking them away from other people. I'm on the fence about requiring pharmacies to hire people who don't believe in birth control. On the one hand, people have a right to their beliefs. Now, I think that if you're going to enforce a rule saying that pharmacies HAVE to consider people who don't believe in filling birth control scrips, I think that you should also draw the line at how MANY they are ALLOWED to have on staff. There HAS to be someone, at all times, who is able to fill any prescription that a doctor prescribes, and if you can't do that, then you can't even think about pulling this shit. You're taking away medicines that are, under some circumstances, life saving.
Yes, I said life SAVING. Have you ever heard of ectopic pregnancy? Situation: The pharmacy tech in a hospital doesn't believe in abortion or birth control, and a woman comes in suffering from an ectopic pregnancy. Ectopic pregnancy is where an embryo forms and attaches inside of a fallopian tube. If the embryo bursts the tube, the woman could DIE. The only way to SOLVE this problem? An abortion... specifically, the "morning after" pill. But the pharmacy tech won't fill the scrip. And the doc can't do a damned thing about it.
I'm sorry, I respect people's beliefs and all, and I'm not necessarily pro-abortion myself, but it's stupid to become a pharmacy tech when you know full well that there's a prescription you don't want to fill and I think that you should find a job that fits your beliefs considering that you live in a country where birth control and abortion are LEGAL, and therefor you really DON'T have a right to refuse to administer either if you're in a position to do so.
If your religious beliefs don't allow you to DO YOUR JOB, then PICK ANOTHER CAREER PATH. How many Amish cable installers do YOU know???
Love,
Crystal
mycybertuffet;--------"Reprinted from this link:
"In a draft of a proposed Federal rule, the Bush administration wants to require all recipients of aid under federal health programs to certify that they will not refuse to hire nurses and other providers who object to abortion and even certain types of birth control. Hospitals, clinics, researchers and medical schools would have to sign “written certifications” that they won't discriminate in any way against people or institutions that oppose abortion or some forms of birth control or refuse to perform them. This includes oral contraception and emergency contraception and is apparently an attempt by the radical religious right to classify oral contraception as abortion. Naturally, the Bush administration is eager to help out.
So, the inner city women's clinic employee who refuses to talk to patients about birth control? Can't touch her. The hospital pharmacist who refuses to fill prescriptions for birth control? She can't be fired or disciplined. The doctor who refuses to give emergency contraception to a rape victim for "religious reasons?" Give that man a promotion."
These regulations are set to be put into practice next week. Here's your petition: http://www.hillpac.com/action/hhspetition/"
I don't have a problem with anti-abortionists having rights. I have a problem with them taking them away from other people. I'm on the fence about requiring pharmacies to hire people who don't believe in birth control. On the one hand, people have a right to their beliefs. Now, I think that if you're going to enforce a rule saying that pharmacies HAVE to consider people who don't believe in filling birth control scrips, I think that you should also draw the line at how MANY they are ALLOWED to have on staff. There HAS to be someone, at all times, who is able to fill any prescription that a doctor prescribes, and if you can't do that, then you can't even think about pulling this shit. You're taking away medicines that are, under some circumstances, life saving.
Yes, I said life SAVING. Have you ever heard of ectopic pregnancy? Situation: The pharmacy tech in a hospital doesn't believe in abortion or birth control, and a woman comes in suffering from an ectopic pregnancy. Ectopic pregnancy is where an embryo forms and attaches inside of a fallopian tube. If the embryo bursts the tube, the woman could DIE. The only way to SOLVE this problem? An abortion... specifically, the "morning after" pill. But the pharmacy tech won't fill the scrip. And the doc can't do a damned thing about it.
I'm sorry, I respect people's beliefs and all, and I'm not necessarily pro-abortion myself, but it's stupid to become a pharmacy tech when you know full well that there's a prescription you don't want to fill and I think that you should find a job that fits your beliefs considering that you live in a country where birth control and abortion are LEGAL, and therefor you really DON'T have a right to refuse to administer either if you're in a position to do so.
If your religious beliefs don't allow you to DO YOUR JOB, then PICK ANOTHER CAREER PATH. How many Amish cable installers do YOU know???
Love,
Crystal
