Politics is so inconvenient

[firecat]

Planned Parenthood's http://www.saveroe.com/fillmypillsnow/ web site reports that Walgreens is among the pharmacies that allow their pharmacists to refuse to dispense prescriptions they don't personally approve of (this universally means prescriptions for birth control or emergency contraception).

According to the web site, the other pharmacies known to attack women's rights in this manner are Rite Aid, Target, Wal-Mart, and Winn Dixie.

I'm very annoyed at losing the convenience of being able to shop at my local 24 hour Walgreens.

Maybe I'll get a job at a steakhouse, claim to be an ethical vegetarian, and refuse to sell/serve any dishes with meat. That would take less time than going to pharmacy school just so I can become a pharmacist and refuse to dispense Viagra.

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[ailbhe]

They are allowed to refuse to prescribe hormone control? I mean, the morning after pill is one thing - some people think that falls under the pro-life vs pro-choice thing - but controlling whether or not people like me are functional 2 weeks out of 4 seems excessive religious zeal.

Go work in a steakhouse. PLEASE. Augh.

(Also, am excessively annoyed that I can't seem to post to current a.p feminism thread in which I commented on my card-sending duties as it is making me RAGE RAGE RAGE).

[firecat]

According to the web site, Target only allows pharmacists to refuse to dispense the morning after pill. But there are other reports of other pharmacies refusing to dispense other kinds of birth control.

I'm not OK with the refusing to dispense the morning after pill. I mean, if a pharmacy decides not to carry it, that's one thing, but to carry it and allow an individual pharmacist to refuse to dispense it, but making a woman think that she can get it and then have to go to another pharmacy within the short window where the pill is effective - that is just harrassment.

Sorry about the posting problems. It's a terribly annoying thread, isn't it?

[ailbhe]

Um, wow, so a pharmacist is allowed to refuse the MAP *even when the woman has no alternative*? without, like, a huge sign on the door saying "No contraception here, emergency or otherwise"? Do these people refuse to sell condoms, too?

[usqueba.livejournal.com]

They are allowed to refuse to prescribe hormone control?

That's what I was wondering. For me, birth control was a happy bonus, it wasn't the primary or even secondary reason I was taking hormones.

What if I brought a note from my doctor? :P

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

And we *need* you over there, too. What an annoying thread. I've actually dropped 2 of those guys into my killfile, 'til I can regain my composure.

[leback.livejournal.com]

I have mixed feelings on the annoyingness of threads like that. The upside is that the nitwits wind up drawing a lot of really brilliant stuff out of some of the people responding to them.

Pity it's not having that effect on ailbhe, though.