On 4/14/15 9:44 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/14/2015 8:33 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 4/14/15 3:49 AM, RGrew176 wrote:
You mean that the woman was not bright enough to go to another pharmacy
where she could have found a more liberal pharmacist. Hmmmmm, OK.






D'oh...

"Her doctor recommended she take the drug *after she miscarried* about
five weeks into her pregnancy, enabling her to avoid undergoing a more
invasive procedure. But Misoprostol can also be used with Mifepristone
to end a pregnancy in its early stages. She suspects that it was for
that reason that the store refused her prescription without providing a
reason.

While she was able to obtain the medication somewhere else, she brought
the issue up again when visiting the store to fill out a separate
prescription.

“She looks at my name and she says ‘Oh, well, I couldn’t think of a
valid reason why you would need this prescription,’” Cartrett said. “I
tell her my reasons for needing it, and she says ‘Well, I don’t feel
like there is a reason why you would need it, so we refused to fill it.’”

A pharmacist for the store, Sandip Patel, told WGXA that under state
law, pharmacists are able to turn down prescriptions. A Walmart
spokesperson said the company encourages its pharmacists to “use their
professional judgement” on a case-by-case basis."

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Try reading for comprehension. The pharmacist had no valid reason for
denying her the medication. She had already suffered a miscarriage...and
she did obtain the Rx elsewhere.

Religious crackpots...they're destroying this country.\



This is nothing but hype. There are 4,177 Walmart stores in the USA
Each one employs 3 or 4 pharmacists. That's somewhere between 12,531
and 16,798 pharmacists. To suggest that because one used his/her
lawful discretion in the filling of one prescription .. for any reason
.. means that religious crackpots are destroying this country is simply
absurd.





It's just part of a spreading disease, and the "lawful discretion" was
built upon religious creepitude, to coin a phrase. The Walmart
pharmacist is just one example of this. There are many others. This sort
of insanity is reason enough to not vote for ultra-conservative
Republicans, who will only further this nonsense agenda.

And what if the woman in question was impoverished and had a beg a ride
to get to the only pharmacy around, and it happened to be that Walmart
pharmacy where the pharmacist was a hyper-religious moron? Then what? Do
without the needed medication?