[Vision2020] House Bill 216 (Pharmacist Conscience Bill)

[Joe Campbell]

A better bill would allow McDonald's workers to refuse to serve those  
who are overweight. I'd love the right to refuse to read papers using  
bad arguments.

Joe Campbell

On Mar 18, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> Courtesy of the Spokesman Review's blog site.
>
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> Pharmacist conscience bill heads for amendment
> at 8:04 a.m. on March 18
>
> Rep. Tom Loertscher’s bill to give pharmacists or “any person”  
> the right
> to refuse to fill a prescription for a patient on the basis of  
> conscience
> is headed for the House’s amending order, to revise the bill so it a 
> pplies
> only to pharmacists - not to cashiers, stores, or others. Rep. Lynn  
> Luker,
> R-Boise, proposed the amendments. “It’s simply a matter of burden  
> of
> proof,” he said. “I don’t think it will change in any way the  
> current
> practices, because people do have that right.” Emotional testimony o 
> n the
> bill stretched for two days before it was approved for amendment on  
> a 14-4
> vote. The testimony included pharmacists and other experts who said  
> Idaho
> pharmacists already have the right to refuse to fill a prescription;  
> Idaho
> has no law requiring them to fill all prescriptions. Among those who
> testified was pharmacist Gloria Hansen, who said, “I do know that we 
>  need
> to act according to our conscience. .. I lean on the rock which is the
> lord God.”
>
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> It is truly a sad day in Idaho for those citizens whose ethics,  
> morals,
> and religious beliefs differ from those of their pharmacist.
>
> Query:  If an asthmatic, living in extremely rural Idaho, dependent on
> inhalers for survival, is refused access to such much-needed  
> inhalers, by
> his/her pharmacist, because (s)he is gay or his/her
> ethics/morals/religious beliefs differ from his/her pharmacist's
> ethics/morals/religious beliefs . . . and the asthmatic dies as a
> result . . . is the pharmacist guilty of ANYTHING?
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
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>
> Seeya
> there.
>
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