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Should pharmacies be required to fill your prescription, even if the pharmacist has moral or religious objections to the potential use of the drug?

(Total Votes: 865)

Yes (82.4%)
 

No (12.5%)
 

Not sure (5.1%)
 


Voter Comments (the following are opinions of readers and not AskaPatient.com)

• It's no different from a cashier refusing to sell you cigs or beer.

• Perhaps they should be in a profession where they dont feel the need to choose for others...

• Had this happen to me, pharmacist refused to fill my rx! Boycot Rite Aid!

• Absolutely! This is a matter between a doctor and patient.

• Science does not morality make

• Either pharmacists are professionals or not; if professionals, they must abide by a code of ethics,

• i think they should mention their concerns

• Yes, unless they think its harmful to the persons health

• If the pharmacy is privately owned by the pharmacist, no. Otherwise, yes.

• singulair

• No pharmacist has to violate hir or her conscience.

• Not the pharmacists job to judge

• I believe that if a pharmacist doesn't want to fill certain prescriptions then he should state that

• being a pharmacist is a job and their personal opinion should not affect my personal life.

• absolutely

• In Dubya's 'Merica...I wouldn't be surprised.

• Not a pharmacists job to jge your moral charcter before prescribing!

• pharmicists advocate for patients, not the other way around.

• Why is this even a question in the United States of America?!

• A pharmacist should always be required to fill all presciptions personal opinions are irrelavent

• A pharmacist has no right to impose their personal beliefs on others

• If they have problems filling prescriptions they need to find another line of work.

• Pharmacists are there to give you your drug. Otherwise they may need to find a new job.

• yes because it is their job and they do not know what is going on between the person and their pdoc.

• Wrong job if you can't perform it!

• Any other pharmacist that has no problem can fill the prescription.

• its his job, if he has morals he should not be in that profession.

• Pharmacists are not doctors and are not qualified to decide which drugs we need.

• too many different religions and moralities to let this be decided by a pharmascist or one person

• unless he owns the drug store

• If a parmacist is having moral issues with perscriptions they fill they should rethink their career.

• tHEIR RELIGION SHOULD NOT HAVE ANTHING TO DO WITH MY HEALTH THAT IS MY CHOICE

• Let the pharmacist quit his job if he's not going to do it right!

• yes

• today it's emergency contraception.. what will it be next week if this doesn't stop?

• yes

• I don't pay a Pharmacist for his/her moral or religious opinions. They are they to fill Dr. Orders.

• Yes, only beacuse they chose that profession knowing that they would have to fill prescriptions

• Yes, a pharmacist is just that, and not the doctor who knows best.

• Absolutely!

• IF THEY HAVE A PROBLEM, THEY NEED TO GET OUT OF THE BUSINESS

• They have monopoly power, and are regulated.

• no one forces you to become a pharmacist

• Of course!! And if not, they should lose their jobs. Their objections have no bearing whatsoever.

• religion shhould have nothing to do with filling a prescription

• If they're not prepared to, they shouldn't be pharmacists

• Their job is to fill prescriptions, not to get on a moral soapbox.

• Yes because hey are not the one taking the med . They can tell you about the drug and warn you but

• Morality cannot be inmposed.

• It's their job to fill what I need to live, and so be it that it is birth control. It's my life!!

• It is a pharmacist's job.

• A pharmacist should fill all prescriptions or change profession

• when he was given his license, I doubt anybody asked him his religion. As with an MD. "first do no h

• Hell yes they should dispense the medicine, or get a new job.

• get a new job if yoour religion prevents legal obligiation.

• it does not matter what the pharmasist personal opinions are, it is between the doctor and patient

• yasmin

• Another pharmacist with no qualms can do it instead.

• their religion is not to be confounding the ability to do their job

• Yes. The pharmacist cannot override the government's control of drugs. If they want change lobby!

• Witnessed Doctors Banning Meds, Never Pharmacists.

• Job is to provide the prescriptions, watch for conflicts between drugs, and educate, not withhold

• Rx to disp. drugs that make tits on males? Surgeons Cutting for MONEY vs helping ones Head 1st.

• A pharmacist should be fired for not filling a valid prescription.

• Where will it end? Will my pharamcist object to my use of HRT or Meridia for obesity?

• what the hell does medicine have to do with religeon

• absolutely, it is their job!

• no way!go somewhere else that does!

• might save pt's life

• They should go to jail if they don't!

• no

• yes ,if it prescribed

• no

• It is his job to inform the patient / give an opinion. Your health is your responsibility!

• proving it is doctor authorized!

• Don't impose your religious beliefs on me. Pill my prescription and shut up.

• You're free to take your $ elsewhere

• yes

• They've a job to do, they should mind their business and do it

• hell yeah. That's their job.

• Defintely without a doubt. They should lose their pharm. license if they try to pull that shit

• None of their business what medication it is!

• Pharmcists as the keepers of morality ? Please!!!!!

• yes it's not about their beliefs its about yours

• IT SHOULDNT MATTER IT'S MY LIFE AND I WILL LIVE IT BECAUSE I CHOOSE WHATS RIGHT FOR ME AND MY BODY

• they should do it anyway

• They are pharmacists, not God and if they can't fill the Rx they should find a different career.

• whith out a doubt

• Absolutely, Opinion or persoanl belief has no place in the decision

• Medical providers must treat patients regardless of personal opinions. Pharmacists are no different.

• They are in a profession that requires them to provide care to a patient, not make moral judgements.

• Unless they suspect that you will attempt suicide with the medication, they have nothing to say!

• Unless they suspect that you will attempt suicide with the medication, they have nothing to say!

• It's not their place to say what you need, it's the doctors.

• It should be the company's choice, the pharm. has a choice whether to work there or not.

• it is not up to the pharmacist to decide whether or not you take the medication

• Like I need a pharmacist to make my choices for me - not!decision

• A pharmacist first must do the job that they are employed to do, fill perscriptions, period.

• the pharmacist should mind his own bussines

• it is a professional obligation

• you are the one being treated, not the pharmacist

• It's their job!

• yes

• Shop with your feet if the drug your dr perscribed is not stocked by a pharmacy-go elsewhere.

• It's my decision

• Not All Pharms Cont To Sell ALL FDA DRUGs After Reading Neg Side Affects On Patients.This Choice =No

• They should do their jobs and go to church on Sunday!

• Absolutely! No pharmacist should let their personal feelings affect them filling scripts!!!!

• It should be the doc's decision what meds you get, not the pharm's.

• They should not be required to assist in murder/

• yes, their job is to dispence and advise..NOT decide and treat

• If they have a problem then they're in the wrong job

• pharmacist=NOT a Dr.

• NO THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO. SOMEONE HAS TO HAVE SOME KIND OF MORALS IN THIS WORLD!!!

• they need to find another line of work not dealing with the public

• Pharmacist needs to separate work from church just like church and state

• They need to do their job. Not impose their opinion on others.

• if one pharmacist has an objection another one there should fill it

• If the pharmacist can't do it, he should get another job.


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