[Vision2020] House Bill 216 (Pharmacist Conscience Bill)

[Kai Eiselein]

Frankly, I'm more worried about this bill in Congress:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.45.IH:

Just one more step on the road to a totalitarian state.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Campbell" <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] House Bill 216 (Pharmacist Conscience Bill)


>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.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Join us at The First Annual Intolerista Wingding, April 17th,
>> featuring
>> Roy Zimmerman and Jeanne McHale.  For details go to . . .
>>
>> http://www.MoscowCares.com/Wingding
>>
>> Seeya
>> there.
>>
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