Pharmacist refused Miscarriage meds due to moral beliefs, risks woman's life - Sensationalist Headlines

Pharmacist Puts Woman's Life At Risk By Refusing Her Miscarriage.. Nicole’s doctor had broken the devastating news to her that her nine-week-old foetus had ceased developing, meaning she would inevitably suffer a miscarriage. If she did not take medication to induce the miscarriage, Nicole would have risked contracting a dangerous infection, and so her doctor wrote her a prescription for misoprostol. However, when she went to pick up the necessary drugs at her local Walgreens pharmacy, the pharmacist denied her her prescription on ‘ethical’ grounds.

Put your morals on the side and do your damn job, they have no place in this situation, esp when someone's life could be at risk.

I wonder if she'll loose her pharmacist tech license and shit for this.

I hope so At the end of the day, this is someone who's using their position to jerk off to the religious moral high ground. Even if it means threatening someone's life along the way.

The pharmacist denied Nicole her medication on a ‘conscience clause’. This allows pharmacists to deny abortion services on a moral or religious basis, IFL Science! reports. In the states of Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, and South Dakota, laws are in place which allow pharmacists to legally refuse to dispense emergency contraception. This is fucking stupid. A doctor provides someone with a prescription and a pharmacist is allowed to deny someone the medication just like that? A medical professional deemed it necessary for a person to take this medication because of the risk to their health otherwise, and some high-and-mighty asshole behind the counter of a Walgreens basically says "Nah, my beliefs are more important than your life." It's good that she was able to go to another pharmacy and get the prescription, but fuck this pharmacist and fuck this "conscience caluse'. If you can't carry out your job when it involves someone else's well being, then you shouldn't have that job. Go work somewhere that doesn't have your choices and beliefs affecting other people's lives.

I'm infuriated by aggressive or holier-than-thou pro-choice people. Especially those that stand around abortion clinics. The women going there are already have a hard as hell time , and especially in this woman's case where she's not only grieving at the loss of her child but could face a deadly infection if she doesn't induce.

It's the pharmacists job to look over the prescriptions and sometimes deny them if they have good justification (e.g. interactions the doctor missed.) Although, this isn't good justification ofc.

I'm not sure about the States, but in the UK it's illegal if a medical professional refuses abortions to pregnant women if they are "against it", whether for personal or religious reasons.

"My faith says I'm allowed to let you die with no blood on my hands! God Forgives, God Bless, Amen."

This is so ridiculous, I can't even understand how denying her the medication is still moral from a religious perspective. Like the fetus will miscarriage eventually and is technically already dead, only if it isn't induced properly with the medication the woman would also suffer an infection, which could possibly cause her own life. Like why can't the pharmacist fathom this situation? If anything this is much more malicious than moral in any given perspective.

I'm sure she prescribed her thoughts and prayers and lots of positive energy. God moves in mysterious ways and you dying from an avoidable infection is part of his plan!!

The pharmacist denied Nicole her medication on a ‘conscience clause’. This allows pharmacists to deny abortion services on a moral or religious basis, IFL Science! reports. A couple things here: "IFL Science! reports" should not be a phrase anyone is using, and why is this allowed? Your religious beliefs are already protected: no one is holding a gun to your head and making you be a pharmacist. You have the right to fuck off from a job you're not going to actually do.

idk why you boyos are rating this disagree, it's perfectly accurate and absolutely necessary to ensure proper patient care. I've been prescribed medications that interact badly before, and the pharmacist caught it. Pharmacists are also responsible for ensuring that you understand how to take your medication or a suitable alternative - something they might need to do based on your healthcare provider.

IIRC isn't IFL science like, the single most garbage "source" regarding science news on the internet?

Pharmacists are doctors. We have just as much education (6 years plus the required experience hours for licensing), and depending on where you go, you are going to have pharmacists looking at your medical records, i.e in a clinic situation with a clinical pharmacist. While a retail pharmacist (CV, Walgreens, etc), isn't going to have complete medical records they do have the medicine records. Pharmacists are basically the last line to insure someone doesn't get a potentially life threatening drug interaction. It's surprisingly common for someone to go to the ER and get sent home with a prescription that interacts with something else they're taking because the ER doctor doesn't have a complete prescription list.

i had a scare with an ex once and had to go to a walgreens to get the morning after pill. i lived in florida at the time so i was expecting some resistance, but i looked it up and it was legal to get it over the counter even if you werent the person taking it. the first one i went to, the pharmacist told me "the girl has to be here" and refused to give it to me unless i could produce an ID for her and she said it would be against the law to do. i just nodded, left and went to another walgreens, and the guy there gave it to me no questions asked. if your moral crusading is in a profession that can affect peoples lives, you do not deserve to be in that position.

Still sounds fucking stupid

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Religion and morality is fine until it starts affecting others negatively. This is one such case. If you truly feel strongly that abortion is wrong, do not enter a field where affecting an abortion may be a possibility. To enter such a field while holding incompatible beliefs is morally bankrupt at best. I hope this pharmacist loses her license. She has no business working in the medical field if she holds these sorts of beliefs.

Yeah - this is not in line rational pro-life thinking. It's just nonsense, he clearly put her life in danger.

If your religion is worth more to you than being a functioning member of society (i.e. doing the job you're paid to do), then you should join a cloister or something. Nobody needs a holier-than-thou jackass who refuses to give you the service you need because "durr the bible said ..."

she should, but she won't.