Comments on: Pope: Don't Dispense Drugs For Immoral Use

Urges Catholic Pharmacists To Refuse Prescriptions Used For Abortion, Euthanasia

[grammawhamma]

I am no longer a catholic...I broke free from that cult. I am a RN. However, I am anti-abortion and I would refuse to participate in that proceedure. That is why I chose to work in a catholic hospital.

[grammawhamma]

No one is forcing the pharmacist to take the medication their pope is against...that would be wrong. But it is also wrong to force the pharmacist''s religious beliefs on some one who has a different belief. If they can''t deal with it then get a different job...or work in a pharmacy at a catholic hospital. If their is not a catholic hospital in their area...then relocate.

[grammawhamma]

blazercoach: If you ran out of gas in an isolated area and walked miles and miles to the next gas station to get gas...only to find out that the person working there at the time was a global warming enthusiast and would only sell you ethanol and your car was not equipted to run on ethanol...would you complain?

[susanhelit]

A vegetarian believes that when you eat meat, you participate in murder - should they be allowed to work at McDonalds, and have a consciencous objector status to not take any order that involves meat?


There is no free market about pharamcists nor doctors. They''re regulated to protect us from quacks and false medicines. They''re licensed by the state to practice. If you can''t dispense all of the drugs in a pharmacy, you can''t be a pharmacist - period. This isn''t like some book, you are choosing a job where you know you''ll have responsibilities to dispense whatever the doctor orders.

[rafterman1]

===The pharmacist believes that life begins at conception and that by administering that drug, he/she would be ending a life......in violation of the Hippocratic Oath.===

Which pharmacist? All of them? I doubt they all believe that. And life at conception is not part of the hypocratic oath.

===You have that right! But don''''t YOU turn around and tell someone else how to morally live their life! (I''''m sure you THINK that''''s an ironic statement....)===

Sorry, but just like a person who doesn''t believe in killing shouldn''t join the military, a person who might be religiously influenced should not be in medicine. Medical people are one of the few that are not allowed the luxury of their religious beliefs in their job.

[blazercoach1]

Papal infallability has been used only a couple of times in the entire history of the church....and all of those occasions dealt with Mary.

Brianbwb....please inform your opinions.

Rafterman, the pharmacist IS following the rules of medicine. The pharmacist believes that life begins at conception and that by administering that drug, he/she would be ending a life......in violation of the Hippocratic Oath.

It is a TRUTH that nobody..not even scientists KNOW when life begins. There are many VALID viewpoints. (Remember that so-called educated people used to believe black people weren''t human or deserving of rights?...some still believe that about people who aren''t out of the uterus yet.....)

If you feel so strongly about it, please....boycott your local pharmacy that has hired a person who won''t fill the prescription. Go ahead! You have that right! But don''t YOU turn around and tell someone else how to morally live their life! (I''m sure you THINK that''s an ironic statement....)

[brianbwb-2009]

So Joey the Ratz ("ours is the one true church") Ratzenberger, scion of a Nazi officer, presumes the right to dictate morality? His inanity has already exposed the "Papal infallibility" concept as a false assumption (as if any human could be infallible), and threatens to marginalize the organization, already rife with corruption, and persuade many to leave.

Sad, because millions who take comfort in the concept of religion will lose their spiritual "sanctuary".

[rafterman1]

===You mean that a person who had to leave work prior to work on friday before sun down as Orthodox Jews do or work on Saturday should be forced into fields that don''''t have working hours. My hero Sandy Koufax a Jew refused to pitch on Yom Kippur a high holy. He gained respect for that not attacks as religious belief and observance gains now.===
posted by alanrobisch2

There is a difference between an office worker or even a baseball player vs. someone who is responsible for affecting the health of a person. If an office worker misses a day of work, it''s not the end of the world. But if a pharmacist or a doctor does not strictly follow the rules of medicine and lets faith dictate the way they do their job, lives could be harmed or even lost.

[blazercoach1]

When all bookstores are forced to sell Bibles as well as porn, when all sporting goods are stores are required to sell fire-arms, and when all car salesmen are required to sell hybrids as well as the worst gas guzzling cars on the market.........then you can argue that PRIVATELY owned pharmacists be required to fill any prescription.

Do any of you recognize a bookstore or car dealership owners right to sell what they WANT to sell? Do you consider it a denial of 1st Amendment rights if a book dealer doesn''t sell a book that gives a certain viewpoint? Do you believe that a sporting good''s salesman that doesn''t sell guns is denying a person their right to bear arms?

If not, you are not being consistent if you argue that a pharmacist choosing not to fill a prescription is denying anyone a so-called right.

If I want a certain book, I''ll find a bookstore that sells it. If I want a gun, I''ll find a store that sells it. If I want a hybrid car or a gas guzzler, I''ll find a dealership that sells them. If you want certain medicine........FIND A PHARMACY THAT SELLS IT!

Enjoy the free-market, folks!

[rick_vt]

This is the same Pope that brought Cardinal Bernard Law from Massachusetts to Rome and gave him an important role there. Cardinal Bernard Law protected numerous pedophile priests, hid them and deliberately covered their crimes, obstructing justice. Cardinal Bernard Law should be in jail, not living well in Rome and now this pope is an accessory to the crimes in America against children committed by the priests Cardinal Bernard Law protected.