[Vision2020] RE: Unstable, Doomed, Missed Points

[Joan Opyr]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: g. crabtree [mailto:jampot at adelphia.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 4:51 PM
> To: Saundra Lund; vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] RE: Unstable, Doomed, Missed Points
>
> Greetings, Ms Lund. As you probably would expect, I am 100% against the
> state compelling anyone to sell a product or provide a service that 
> they
> believe is morally wrong. To force a pharmacist to fill a prescription 
> for a
> product that he finds abhorrent is no different that forcing a 
> pacifist,
> anti second amendment type hardware store owner is sell affordable 
> handguns
> in accordance with applicable law.  As near as I can tell, it is not 
> against
> state or federal law to refuse to sell Plan B so as far as complying 
> with
> regulations, Wal-Mart was in the clear. With that being the case, do I 
> take
> from your reply that you're cool with WM's reticence to provide this
> product?

Hello Gary Crabtree,

First, no sarcasm here; none at all.  Just a straightforward question 
about the position you stake out above.  A sheriff in West Virginia is, 
at present, being sued for refusing CPR to a gay man who died as a 
consequence.  Would you support that sheriff's decision not to supply a 
service for which he, the sheriff, had contracted but which he found 
personally and morally repugnant?  It concerns me that medical services 
(and I included filling prescriptions) might be parsed out according to 
the provider's belief or whim.  The pharmacist doesn't write the 
prescription; he/she just pops the pills into the bottle.  The 
pharmacist is also not in a position, legally or morally, to dictate 
ethics to the patient.  Where do we draw the line?  What would you say 
of Scientology pharmacists who (like eighth level Thetan, Tom Cruise) 
believe that Prozac is wicked and a few lessons from L. Ron Hubbard are 
more than adequate for treating depression?  Or Catholic pharamacists 
who don't want to supply any form of birth control?  (Not even ugly 
eyeglasses.)

Interested to hear your answer.  No kidding!

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com