I read this over the weekend, and had to read it a couple of times before I fully understood what it was actually saying.

It appears a Pharmacist refused to give the morning after pill to a 37 year-old woman, on the grounds that it offended his religion. The fact that he was a strict Muslim is actually beside the point as far as I’m concerned. I’d feel the same if they had been a strict Catholic, Druid or Scientologist.

No-one, and I mean no-one, has the right to determine what you should, or should not do, provided what you’re doing isn’t illegal. And taking the morning after pill certainly isn’t.

My feelings on this matter weren’t helped by the fact that apparently the Pharmacist did nothing wrong.

“…he referred to a “conscience clause” in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain’s ethics code, saying: “It states that if supplying the morning-after pill is contrary to a pharmacist’s personal, religious or moral beliefs they are entirely within their rights not to supply it.”"

Well fuck me backwards. If they don’t ‘feel like it’, they don’t have to dispense it?!

Is this true of all medicines? “I don’t want to give you this Ibuprofen because you’re fat and if you get rid of your headache you might spend more time in public offending my eyes.”

What about other service industries? What if you were refused an item of clothing because you weren’t deemed attractive enough? (This is directed at you lot, as it would never happen to me).

In truth, I’d have had much more sympathy for the Pharmacist if he’d rammed a handful of pills down her throat claiming she was likely to bring a hideous looking child into the world. Even though we do have the Royal family for that.
So Mr Pharmacist, do what you’re paid for. If you don’t like doing it, do something else.

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I read this over the weekend, and had to read it a couple of times before I fully understood what it was actually saying.

It appears a Pharmacist refused to give the morning after pill to a 37 year-old woman, on the grounds that it offended his religion. The fact that he was a strict Muslim is actually beside the point as far as I’m concerned. I’d feel the same if they had been a strict Catholic, Druid or Scientologist.

No-one, and I mean no-one, has the right to determine what you should, or should not do, provided what you’re doing isn’t illegal. And taking the morning after pill certainly isn’t.

My feelings on this matter weren’t helped by the fact that apparently the Pharmacist did nothing wrong.

“…he referred to a “conscience clause” in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain’s ethics code, saying: “It states that if supplying the morning-after pill is contrary to a pharmacist’s personal, religious or moral beliefs they are entirely within their rights not to supply it.”"

Well fuck me backwards. If they don’t ‘feel like it’, they don’t have to dispense it?!

Is this true of all medicines? “I don’t want to give you this Ibuprofen because you’re fat and if you get rid of your headache you might spend more time in public offending my eyes.”

What about other service industries? What if you were refused an item of clothing because you weren’t deemed attractive enough? (This is directed at you lot, as it would never happen to me).

In truth, I’d have had much more sympathy for the Pharmacist if he’d rammed a handful of pills down her throat claiming she was likely to bring a hideous looking child into the world. Even though we do have the Royal family for that.
So Mr Pharmacist, do what you’re paid for. If you don’t like doing it, do something else.

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