Pharmacy owners cannot cite religion to deny medicine: U.S. appeals court
Source: Reuters
The state of Washington can require a pharmacy to deliver medicine even if the pharmacys owner has a religious objection, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, the latest in a series of judgments on whether religious believers can opt out of providing services.
The ruling, from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, came in a case filed by pharmacists who objected to delivering emergency contraceptives. The 9th Circuit overturned a lower court that had said the rules were unconstitutional.
The U.S. Supreme Court last year allowed closely held corporations to seek exemptions from the Obamacare health laws contraception requirement.
In Washington, the state permits a religiously objecting individual pharmacist to deny medicine, so long as another pharmacist working there provides timely delivery. The rules require a pharmacy to deliver all medicine, even if the owner objects.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/pharmacy-owners-cannot-cite-religion-to-deny-medicine-u-s-appeals-court/
riversedge
(70,304 posts)Religious objections.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)Ligyron
(7,639 posts)Keep that nonsense in a church, temple or whatever and at home.
It has no place in government or a business that deals with the general public and uses our taxpayer paid for roads and infrastructure.
christx30
(6,241 posts)I'm glad I'd be able to go into a store and get what I need without worrying about the clerk's religious objections. If I get a muslim clerk, can he stop me from buying a beer? If I get a Jewish clerk, can he stop me from buying ham? Can a Hindu cleark stop me from getting 2 pounds of ground beef?
MissMillie
(38,580 posts)The argument is always the same... that these treatments interrupt "God's will" when it comes to pregnancy.
I have never heard the same people argue that men shouldn't need Viagra (isn't their ED "God's will?) or against fertility treatments.
Keep the women barefoot and pregnant.... (/sarcasm).
3catwoman3
(24,046 posts)I don't hear any objections to ED melds being covered by insurance
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)"...that saith to the wood, awake;..."
Habakkuk 2:19, KJV.
brer cat
(24,606 posts)haikugal
(6,476 posts)I've had some heated 'discussions' around this issue. One with a pharmacy student who didn't 'get it'...
This is very good news.
Thanks!
Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)For example: If I claim that I find hunting morally objectionable, do I get to get a job in a sporting goods store and then refuse to sell hunting rifles? I suspect most people would tell me to quit the job.
If Pharmacists don't want to sell any drug for any reason, they should work in another field.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)That young student didn't see the problem of a pharmacy refusing to sell birth control due to religious objections...and off we go! I could not stop myself...I finally had to walk away. Ugh!
Hekate
(90,796 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)........again......
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Maybe they should just put it on a loop in the news ticker at the bottom of the screen.
pansypoo53219
(20,996 posts)Hoppy
(3,595 posts)d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)reference. Doubt they'll have a bone to pick with that one.
Gothmog
(145,561 posts)I look forward to reading this opinion
brett_jv
(1,245 posts)I mean, is there a law that says they MUST carry these products?
If not, then this decision is just going to lead to certain pharmacies not ordering them anymore.
But at least at your 'big chain' types of places, the ones for whom individual employees 'preferences' about stuff like this won't matter ... (and hence, these products WILL be stocked, because there's money to be made), the corporate office isn't going to tolerate employees breaking federal law ... so ... at least occasionally the outcome will be different as a result of this case, and women will get the care they deserve. So there is that!
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)They could choose not to stock a product and still be forced to order it if the customer has a prescription.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)No, I don't think they can. Or if they don't actively stock it, they must order it upon being presented with a valid prescription.
Licensure is to protect the consumer, from shit like this.