Prayers of the People - Fill those Proscriptions
Those Krazy Kristian Konservatives are at it again. They really don't want pharmacists to have to do their job, their only job, which is to fill the prescriptions that our doctors write for us.
Their big problem are these so-called "morning-after pills", aka "Plan-B" which would allow a woman (it doesn't work for men, unfortunately) who had unprotected sex to decide whether to let the lottery which is her reproductive system decide whether she gets pregnant, or to make sure that no pregnancy comes from a recent sexual encounter.
A certain segment of the lunatic religious fringe calls these pills "abortifactants". In other words, preventing a fetus from forming out of the few hundred cells that might be floating around inside a woman a day or so after sex is abortion. Or in the parlance of these nuts: "baby killin' ".
Here's the thing: MOST sexual encounters do not cause pregnancy. The sperm might get to the egg and do its magic, but in a huge number of those cases, a woman has her period and that's the end of it. Even several months into a pregnancy, spontaneous termination is quite common - much more common than a doctor-performed abortion. So does that make God the champion abortionist of all-time? And if each one of those lumps of cells (the medical term is blastocyte") has a soul, does that mean that heaven is full of partially formed fetuses? Yuk. Can I put in a reservation for the fetus-free heaven? Not according to the thousands of these groups with names like "Family Council of Research into Freedom and Life".
Getting back to those faithful farmacists who believe that a blastocyte is the same as a fully-formed human being (by the way, a remarkable number of them also believe that the earth is only 6000 years old). How far should we go with consideration for the conscience of the pharmacist? If they believe that all Jews are going to burn in Hell (if they're Evangelicals, that's exactly what they believe) is it OK to maybe turn their business away too? Maybe a pharmacist is a converted Christian Scientist, maybe they think thier customers should be praying instead of taking their cancer meds. You see where this is going?
Here in Illinois, the governor has said that any pharmacists who turns away a woman whose doctor has prescribed Plan-B will lose their license. This particular governor is not really known for his courageous stands, but he deserves some credit for this one. I'd print his name here if I could only spell it.
[My wife, who is of the same ethnic persuasion as the gov, tells me the spelling is: "Blagojevich". She also says he's a jackass, but she also says that about me sometimes.]
Their big problem are these so-called "morning-after pills", aka "Plan-B" which would allow a woman (it doesn't work for men, unfortunately) who had unprotected sex to decide whether to let the lottery which is her reproductive system decide whether she gets pregnant, or to make sure that no pregnancy comes from a recent sexual encounter.
A certain segment of the lunatic religious fringe calls these pills "abortifactants". In other words, preventing a fetus from forming out of the few hundred cells that might be floating around inside a woman a day or so after sex is abortion. Or in the parlance of these nuts: "baby killin' ".
Here's the thing: MOST sexual encounters do not cause pregnancy. The sperm might get to the egg and do its magic, but in a huge number of those cases, a woman has her period and that's the end of it. Even several months into a pregnancy, spontaneous termination is quite common - much more common than a doctor-performed abortion. So does that make God the champion abortionist of all-time? And if each one of those lumps of cells (the medical term is blastocyte") has a soul, does that mean that heaven is full of partially formed fetuses? Yuk. Can I put in a reservation for the fetus-free heaven? Not according to the thousands of these groups with names like "Family Council of Research into Freedom and Life".
Getting back to those faithful farmacists who believe that a blastocyte is the same as a fully-formed human being (by the way, a remarkable number of them also believe that the earth is only 6000 years old). How far should we go with consideration for the conscience of the pharmacist? If they believe that all Jews are going to burn in Hell (if they're Evangelicals, that's exactly what they believe) is it OK to maybe turn their business away too? Maybe a pharmacist is a converted Christian Scientist, maybe they think thier customers should be praying instead of taking their cancer meds. You see where this is going?
Here in Illinois, the governor has said that any pharmacists who turns away a woman whose doctor has prescribed Plan-B will lose their license. This particular governor is not really known for his courageous stands, but he deserves some credit for this one. I'd print his name here if I could only spell it.
[My wife, who is of the same ethnic persuasion as the gov, tells me the spelling is: "Blagojevich". She also says he's a jackass, but she also says that about me sometimes.]
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