-=> Quoting Steve Kemp to Judith Bandsma <=-

>JB>  Now it's on the ballot here and in several
>JB> other states to make it legal for pharmacists
>JB> to refuse to fill prescriptions for birth
>JB> control or to sell condoms if it is against
>JB> their beliefs. 

SK> The have mixed emotions about that.

Of course. Most people do.

SK>  Hey, I'm PRO-choice and such. But I'm also
SK> pro-freedom. And if a private owner of a
SK> pharmacy doesn't want to sell something...
SK> well, they should have that right to refuse to. 

Even when that refusal results in medical, emotional,
and psychological distress? What if a customer cannot
acquire medication elsewhere?

If a person can refuse to provide health care (such
as a pharmacist) based upon religious biases, what
other religious biases (hatreds) will gain the weight
of law?

If the pharmacists refused to sell pornography and
peanuts, certainly "well, they should have that right
to refuse to." Being a party to another person becoming
pregnant againts her will is an entirely different
issue; it would also force girls and women to get
abortions.

SK> Should I "as a book seller" be required
SK> to sell Bibles? 

No one died from not buying a Bible. No one spent
nine months in pregnancy, carrying an unwanted
child, due to lack of purchasing a Bible. No one
was forced to raise an unwanted child for twenty
years because she could not purchase a Bible.


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