[Vision2020] House Bill 216 (Pharmacist Conscience Bill)

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Kai,

I came up with a blank page when I followed your link.  What are you focusing on here?

Sunil

> From: editor at lataheagle.com
> To: philosopher.joe at gmail.com; thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:42:02 -0700
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] House Bill 216 (Pharmacist Conscience Bill)
> 
> 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.”
> >>
> >> ---------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> 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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