This morning I was listening to a debate right now on KQED about whether or not pharmacists have a right not to fill legal prescriptions based on their personal morals and values. Basically this topic has come up because there have been some pharmacists not filling birth control prescriptions and not selling people condoms. Some of these pharmacists have even harassed their customers and even withheld the actual prescription so that it could be fulfilled elsewhere. This is totally outrageous.

Pharmacists should not be substituting their "professional judgment" for the that of the doctor and the patient. They have no fucking business doing any such thing no matter what their conscious tells them. Their job is ensure that legal prescriptions are filled accurately and in a timely fashion. Anything short of that should be grounds for decreditation. As long as these drugs are legal and deemed to be safe by the FDA they have an obligation to provide them to anyone with a prescription. If they have a problem with that then they shouldn't be pharmacists. Period. End of story.

It's shocking to me that this is even an issue. Democrats in the Senate are dancing around it by trying to work both sides, granting pharmacists their "rights" not to fill any Rx's they find morally objectionable while holding that the pharmacy itself is responsible for making sure that the Rx gets filled. This is silliness.

Something really needs to be done to end the empowerment of the faith based community that manifests itself in harassing 16 year old girls trying to obtain birth control pills. Hopefully this is just another example of the right going way to far that the left will be able to bludgeon them with in the mid term elections. Terri Schiavo, refusniks pharmacists, anti-abortionist bombers. It's enough to drive an atheist insane.