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Re: Religious Freedom Claim Taken Too Far?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:44:31 GMT
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Dave Schuler wrote:
> As to Frank's point, I must disagree that it might be okay for the
> pharmacist to refuse the prescription. Even if the pharmacy has a
> faith-friendly policy, the pharmacist is state-licensed, and I don't
> believe, though I may be wrong, that the state license includes an
> exemption for religion. And if it *does* include such an exemption,
> then that exemption should be stricken, IMO.
From a libertarian perspective, I'll grant the pharmacist the right to
discriminate. What I don't grant him the right to do though is interfere.
Refusing to fill a prescription is discrimination. Refusal to forward the
prescription to someone else is inteference. Though part of the problem here
is doctors sending prescriptions directly to pharmacies instead of the old
days where they gave you a prescription on a piece of paper that you took to
whichever pharmacist you chose. With some situations now though, you can
just go to another pharmacy and they can contact the health care provider to
request the prescription, bypassing the pharmacy it was sent to in the first
place.
On the other hand, since we don't have a proper free market system, it may
be required that we force pharmacists to write prescriptions even when they
don't want to.
Frank
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| (...) Actually, the doctor-to-pharmacy direct link hadn't occurred to me. My family doctor usually still gives us a script and we take it to the pharmacist, though she sometimes calls in the prescription directly, with our permission. That would (...) (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Well, right now we *nominally* live under the laws of America--if the Spawn of Satan is re-appointed in November, then we'll see what happens to those laws. Anyway, I completely agree with the meat of your post. The guy's welcome to believe (...) (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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