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

Urges Catholic Pharmacists To Refuse Prescriptions Used For Abortion, Euthanasia

[godofredo29]

And, this just in from the late John Paul II: Don''t use catheters on old men! Inevitably the result will be prostatitis, which is what ultimately killed me because of my weakened immune system. I am sending a pox on all the urologist''s houses!

[asor1-2009]

Why is some dizzy thing this man says ''news worthy''? The Catholic Church is about troubled men, by insipid men and for boy-loving men. Pi55 off Benny.

[cs4466]

The fact that anyone at all listens to or takes stock in what this thug says is an extremely sad testament to the state of the world. It is only the presence of the organized religions of the world that leads me to believe that true evil exists. Not that they proclaim the dangers of it, but that they become it themselves. At the center of each lies a core of hatred so dire and tangible one cannot help but shudder and wonder - "why?".

[oldsoftee]

Egg Benedict!!!!

[kansas1946]

Well, unless you are a Catholic, why would anyone care what the Pope says? I just view him as a nice old man, but whatever he thinks or says doesn''t affect my life or my decision making. So why does the news make such a big deal out of everything he says? This is a Catholic thing.

[andor3]

Why is no one talking about doctors who write these prescriptions? Would the pope try to dictate medicine to doctors? Should doctors and pharmacists be required to disclose any religious views that would influence their ability to do their jobs?

[nlm2383]

As much as I absolutely and completely disagree with abortion, I think no one really has a right to tell anyone what they should and/or should not do with their body just because of that persons religious beliefs. That''s what pisses me off about religion. Also, the 72 hour pill is in no way used for abortion. How can they even compare the two? Theres no guarantee you WILL get pregnant if you have unprotected *** if you don''t use the 72 hour pill. This is just ridiculous.

[grammawhamma]

I was raised in this cult of a religion...thank God I saw the light and escaped from it.

[barbaraf4]

Apparently it is acceptable behavior to molest young boys, but it is unacceptable to fill legally prescribed medications.

[obiwan234]

Someone need to tell the Poope to shut up and butt out of things which do not concern him. Maybe if he spent some time working on sexually obsessed Catholic Priests and stop covering up the ruination of young boys by his pedifile priests & employees, then we might have some interest in what he says. He''s just a talking head as far as I''m concerned and as relevant is the void in the Catholic Church of real leadership and Godliness.

[andor3]

A pharmacy and all pharmacists have a duty to fill all prescriptions written by a doctor and presented by a patient. What medicine a person takes is between the doctor and the patient. Not between the pope and the pharmacist.

I would never go to a pharmacy where any employee exercised moral judgment to refuse to fill a prescription whether for me or anyone. If a pharmacist has moral qualms about his/her profession then there are other jobs.

Just more evidence of the madness and ignorance perpetuated by religion anf those who believe.

[psk123-2009]

Doctors and pharmacists should find a different occupation if they cannot write or fill any prescription that concerns the reproductive area in any way shape or form. I neither need nor want someone else taking their personal or religious moral judgments out on me.

Religions should stick to Sunday services, mind their own lives, and stay out of everyone else%u2019s pants.

Going one better, priests should also stick to keeping their own pants on and leave little kids alone. Silence is acceptance, acceptance is condoning. They have a vow of celibacy, playing with the under-aged, whether same gender or opposite is not a valid exception to that rule.

[missingamerica]

Who runs America? Us, or the Pope?

[susanhelit]

The doctors decide what prescriptions a person needs, not some pharmacist on a power trip. If you can''t handle that, don''t become a pharmacist.

Next thing you know, they''ll refuse to fill prescriptions for Viagra, and no Prozac if you go to a pharmacy where the pharmacist is a scientologist, and no medicines made with an non-kosher methods if your pharmacist is Jewish or Muslim, and so on and so forth.

[typegirl-2009]

If religious organizations, whether catholic, christian, islamic or any other, want to start getting involved in govenmental or policital outcomes in this country, at that point, their separation of church and state ends, and they should be treated like any other private business or private citizen, and be taxed to the max.

[scottyusa]

Well I think the Pope is nuts. This is easy. If you are catholic don''t be a pharmacist. The church has no right to dictate its beliefs on non catholics. That is what is immoral. The idiocy gets worse too. No protection from pregnancy other then abstention. *** is only for the married and only for the purpose of procreation. Get real Pope and bring the church into the 21st century.

[mellie1957]

Yea - the Catholics (and the POPE included) don''t even understand the definition of morality ! They hide behind their cloaks while their priests molest young boys & girls. By ignoring it, they are condoning it.

[gkc99]

Aren''t there any Catholics who have personal moral conscientious objections to blindly following this Hitler youth?

Oh wait--they''re called Protestants!

[marcodele]

How do they know when they dispense Viagra or Cialis whether it is going to be used morally or immorally?
What if that Viagra is so someone can molest their niece?

Let''s get real. Pharmacists should do the job they are paid to do. If they have moral problems with certain prescriptions, then they''re in the wrong business.

[grammawhamma]

Catholic pharmacists should not take a job at a pharmacy that sells birth control if they are not willing to fill the prescrptions. They can get a job in the pharmacy of a Catholic hospital and never have to be forced to go against their pope.