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Kai,<br><br>I came up with a blank page when I followed your link. What are you focusing on here?<br><br>Sunil<br><br>> From: editor@lataheagle.com<br>> To: philosopher.joe@gmail.com; thansen@moscow.com<br>> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:42:02 -0700<br>> CC: vision2020@moscow.com<br>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] House Bill 216 (Pharmacist Conscience Bill)<br>> <br>> Frankly, I'm more worried about this bill in Congress:<br>> http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.45.IH:<br>> <br>> Just one more step on the road to a totalitarian state.<br>> <br>> ----- Original Message ----- <br>> From: "Joe Campbell" <philosopher.joe@gmail.com><br>> To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com><br>> Cc: <vision2020@moscow.com><br>> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:20 AM<br>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] House Bill 216 (Pharmacist Conscience Bill)<br>> <br>> <br>> >A better bill would allow McDonald's workers to refuse to serve those<br>> > who are overweight. I'd love the right to refuse to read papers using<br>> > bad arguments.<br>> ><br>> > Joe Campbell<br>> ><br>> > On Mar 18, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com> wrote:<br>> ><br>> >> Courtesy of the Spokesman Review's blog site.<br>> >><br>> >> ---------------------------------------------<br>> >><br>> >> Pharmacist conscience bill heads for amendment<br>> >> at 8:04 a.m. on March 18<br>> >><br>> >> Rep. Tom Loertscher’s bill to give pharmacists or “any person”<br>> >> the right<br>> >> to refuse to fill a prescription for a patient on the basis of<br>> >> conscience<br>> >> is headed for the House’s amending order, to revise the bill so it a<br>> >> pplies<br>> >> only to pharmacists - not to cashiers, stores, or others. Rep. Lynn<br>> >> Luker,<br>> >> R-Boise, proposed the amendments. “It’s simply a matter of burden<br>> >> of<br>> >> proof,” he said. “I don’t think it will change in any way the<br>> >> current<br>> >> practices, because people do have that right.” Emotional testimony o<br>> >> n the<br>> >> bill stretched for two days before it was approved for amendment on<br>> >> a 14-4<br>> >> vote. The testimony included pharmacists and other experts who said<br>> >> Idaho<br>> >> pharmacists already have the right to refuse to fill a prescription;<br>> >> Idaho<br>> >> has no law requiring them to fill all prescriptions. Among those who<br>> >> testified was pharmacist Gloria Hansen, who said, “I do know that we<br>> >> need<br>> >> to act according to our conscience. .. I lean on the rock which is the<br>> >> lord God.”<br>> >><br>> >> ---------------------------------------------<br>> >><br>> >> It is truly a sad day in Idaho for those citizens whose ethics,<br>> >> morals,<br>> >> and religious beliefs differ from those of their pharmacist.<br>> >><br>> >> Query: If an asthmatic, living in extremely rural Idaho, dependent on<br>> >> inhalers for survival, is refused access to such much-needed<br>> >> inhalers, by<br>> >> his/her pharmacist, because (s)he is gay or his/her<br>> >> ethics/morals/religious beliefs differ from his/her pharmacist's<br>> >> ethics/morals/religious beliefs . . . and the asthmatic dies as a<br>> >> result . . . is the pharmacist guilty of ANYTHING?<br>> >><br>> >> Seeya round town, Moscow.<br>> >><br>> >> Tom Hansen<br>> >> Moscow, Idaho<br>> >><br>> >> Join us at The First Annual Intolerista Wingding, April 17th,<br>> >> featuring<br>> >> Roy Zimmerman and Jeanne McHale. For details go to . . .<br>> >><br>> >> http://www.MoscowCares.com/Wingding<br>> >><br>> >> Seeya<br>> >> there.<br>> >><br>> >> ---------------------------------------------<br>> >> This message was sent by First Step Internet.<br>> >> http://www.fsr.com/<br>> >><br>> >><br>> >> =======================================================<br>> >> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>> >> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br>> >> http://www.fsr.net<br>> >> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> >> =======================================================<br>> ><br>> > =======================================================<br>> > List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>> > serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br>> > http://www.fsr.net<br>> > mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> > =======================================================<br>> ><br>> > <br>> <br>> =======================================================<br>> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br>> http://www.fsr.net <br>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> =======================================================<br></body>
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