FinalDragoon
Dec 15th, 2005, 11:10 AM
For those that don't know what the morning after pill is, it is a pill that ensures that you don't become pregnant after unprotected sex by killing the growing fetus within you if taken within X number of days (varies per person) after the fact. You need a perscription for it (which is bull), but that is easy enough to get nowadays given a good, understanding doctor. So you wouldn't think it would be too much of a problem? You get your perscription, you go and get it filled, and you go home. But, believe it or not, in the second step is the problem.
What's happening is that some pharmacists are refusing to fill the perscriptions. Why? Pretty much because of religious reasons. And you would think "Well that's bull. But they can always go to a different pharmacy and get it filled." Well... Not quite. Some of these vile pharmacists are taking it a step farther. When they are presented with the perscription, they snatch it out of the woman's hand and refuse to give it back. Thus disallowing her to get her pill from elsewhere and forcing the pregancy. The ones that will fill the perscription will speak very loudly and lecture the woman on the 'evils' of what she is doing. Thus allowing every damned person in the area to hear that she had unprotected sex and humiliating her. And who likes a religious 'You'll to hell!' fire and brimstone speech against you anyway?
The Access to Legal Pharmaceuticals Act, or ALPhA is stuck in the senate right now. It basically says to pharmacists: "Look - this is bullshit. If you have a pharmacist who feels that he can't fill the perscription, then make sure there's someone on staff who can." It also protects the woman against humiliation and the like.
But the problem lies in this: There are many republicans stalling this in the senate. And also - what's to stop pharmacists to say... Not give you ridallin because they view people with disorders such as ADHD as evil? Or not to give you hormones if you are transitioning because they view transexuals as evil? Or not to give you, say, pennicilan because they say "God gave you this illness. You should accept that." Nothing at all based on their recent performance with the morning after pill. And this isn't an isolated incident - it is happening all over the place and there are hundreds of counts each year!
What's happening is that some pharmacists are refusing to fill the perscriptions. Why? Pretty much because of religious reasons. And you would think "Well that's bull. But they can always go to a different pharmacy and get it filled." Well... Not quite. Some of these vile pharmacists are taking it a step farther. When they are presented with the perscription, they snatch it out of the woman's hand and refuse to give it back. Thus disallowing her to get her pill from elsewhere and forcing the pregancy. The ones that will fill the perscription will speak very loudly and lecture the woman on the 'evils' of what she is doing. Thus allowing every damned person in the area to hear that she had unprotected sex and humiliating her. And who likes a religious 'You'll to hell!' fire and brimstone speech against you anyway?
The Access to Legal Pharmaceuticals Act, or ALPhA is stuck in the senate right now. It basically says to pharmacists: "Look - this is bullshit. If you have a pharmacist who feels that he can't fill the perscription, then make sure there's someone on staff who can." It also protects the woman against humiliation and the like.
But the problem lies in this: There are many republicans stalling this in the senate. And also - what's to stop pharmacists to say... Not give you ridallin because they view people with disorders such as ADHD as evil? Or not to give you hormones if you are transitioning because they view transexuals as evil? Or not to give you, say, pennicilan because they say "God gave you this illness. You should accept that." Nothing at all based on their recent performance with the morning after pill. And this isn't an isolated incident - it is happening all over the place and there are hundreds of counts each year!