re: Walgreens pharmacist denies pregnant woman miscarriage medication over his ethical beliefs

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I guess my point is that if he was my employee, he would be fired.

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My guess would be someone highly educated with convictions wouldn't want to work for someone who says they would give up their own convictions when it conflicts with a customer anyway.

If you're willing to lay aside your beliefs for something, then you really don't have any in the 1st place.

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Cool.

Pharmacists should have the right to deny services.

And a pharmacy should be able to fire them too.

Freedom is awesome that way.

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so you agree with the Pharm and walgreens now.... great.

From a Texas government website:

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Is the pharmacist required to fill my prescription?

Occasionally, pharmacists may refuse to fill a prescription if they believe that filling the prescription is not in the best interest of your health. Some of the reasons a pharmacist may refuse to fill a prescription include:

the pharmacist is concerned that the medication will interact badly with another drug you are taking;
the pharmacist believes that an excessive quantity has been prescribed;
or the pharmacist has an indication that the prescription wasn't issued by the doctor whose name appears on the prescription.

It is the responsibility of the pharmacist to contact the doctor for clarification if they have any questions about the medical correctness or legality of a prescription. By doing this, pharmacists perform a vital, final check prior to your taking the medication.

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Nothing about personal beliefs.

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Because he doesn't know this is the case. He has zero access to her records from her MD.

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Actually, the prescription should have had a ICD-10 code for billing purposes. That would have indicated why she was taking it. If he's too dumb to know the "good" and "bad" diagnostic codes for one of the few potentially objectionable drugs, then he sucks at being a pharmacist.

Per another board, he also should have known from the dosage.

I’ve never argued that Walgreens doesn’t have the right to their own policy

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Actually, the prescription should have had a ICD-10 code for billing purposes.

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Actually, it doesn’t.

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Where do you go to the doctor where they take the time to write ICD 10 codes on prescriptions? I can assure you they don't do this regularly at all.

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Need it to get reimbursed. Better to have it up front than have to chase it down after the fact.

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Cool. Now try Arizona where this actually happened.

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Oh I know, but he doesn’t.

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From the United States Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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When has this ever been a federal government issue?

Arizona is one of six states that allow pharmacists to deny prescriptions based on morals. They actually aren’t required to help find a new pharmacy after that. That’s only Walgreens policy. This isn’t a first amendment issue.

My whole point has been that these morals are misplaced because there was no abortion the pharmacist was preventing.

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Need it to get reimbursed

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Keep trying.

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his job is looking at meds and how they react to the patients body. So if one pharmacist doesnt want to fill it, GOT TO SOME ONE ELSE!

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So this pharmacist already cited religious beliefs for not filling the script, not medical reasons. Are you telling me you would look square into a crying woman's eyes and tell her she's just going to have to carry that dead person's body inside of her belly across the street if she wants to get it out? If a pharmacist has sworn to a code of ethics to do what is right ethically for a patient's health, in this case the mother, then he has broken his oath. Period.

He was not saving a life by not handing her this prescription, in fact he was possibly harming another one, the one that was still alive.