EOB ‘Pharmacist Conscience’ OK’d

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  notright on March 30 at 10:37 a.m.

  A sad day. I didn’t believe this would pass. Just goes to show how much we lost in the last decade. Fie on ‘em.

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  jazzyvandal on March 30 at 10:48 a.m.

  Horrible horrible decision. I hope this fails in the senate. This all boils down to the religious right sticking their noses in women’s health choices.

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  scootermom on March 30 at 10:53 a.m.

  The logic escapes me. If you want to reduce the number of abortions, you don’t limit access to contraceptives. Or, is the sinister plan of the conservative right to keep women barefoot and pregnant.

  Way to go Tom “What can we do to keep moms at home” Loertscher and David “I prefer fetuses to women” Ripley.

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  northidahonative on March 30 at 10:54 a.m.

  Decisions by our wonderful State Legislators make me ashamed to have been born here. People who have moral or ethical objections to situations that may arise within any career shouldn’t choose that career.

  Republicans are big on the rights of businessmen to run their own business without government interference, unless the interference comes from a Republican government it seems. Does this Bill give the employer the right to ask any applicant for a job as a pharmacist whether they have any moral or ethical objections to dispensing any legal drug? If not then why should an employer be forced by law to hire people who cannot do the job they are hired to do?

  If someone can’t do their job because of the religious beliefs then let them find another job. If a pharmacy allows, by hiring, its employees to override the medical advice of a patient’s doctor because of “moral values” it should be required to post a sign at the entry to to store that says “We serve only the morally superior”, then the rest of us wouldn’t need to bother with purchasing anything from that store.

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  moscow_minidoka on March 30 at 11:13 a.m.

  “Decisions by our wonderful State Legislators make me ashamed to have been born here. ”

  Join the club. The past few months have been very disillusioning for me, and I am wondering why on earth I came back to raise my children in the state I love. It’s been hijacked by morons and zealots.

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  moscow_minidoka on March 30 at 11:15 a.m.

  “Idaho education cuts not deep enough/Adam’s Blog”

  Cuts in Adam are not deep enough. And I have no respect for a blogger who can’t spell correctly, or who doesn’t understand the difference between their/they’re/there. Obviously his own education was quite effective.

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  northidahonative on March 30 at 11:51 a.m.

  “Join the club. The past few months have been very disillusioning for me”

  Now that our Legislature has decided that the State Farmers can operate their businesses illegally by employing people with no right to work or live in this country, I was wondering what other businesses in Idaho could lobby our legislature to get that same right.

  In this instance why didn’t our elected officials have the balls to outlaw all the drugs that offend their “morality” from even being brought into the State?

  I always find it funny when a group as corrupt as our State Representatives pass laws trying to push their moral and ethical beliefs on us. Just how ethical is it for them to take money from industry owners to allow that industry to use illegal labor and to pass laws that use Idaho Tax payer money to provide benefits for both the illegal workers and the farmers?

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  Sisyphus on March 30 at 12:12 p.m.

  As I understand this, its completely unnecessary. As Betsy points out, there is no law compelling a pharmacist to dispense prescribed medication. Another solution in search of a problem which only masks the specious intent of the legislation similar to the fetal death certificate. And gosh if it isn’t the same proponents. They wanna hijack state resources to make an assault on Roe v. Wade. Both the AMA and the APhA oppose this legislation.

  Now I reckon it will safeguard the employment of any pharmacist who wants to refuse to do her job on whatever morality she’s practicing that day, but they can fire her without consequence if she’s gay.

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  scootermom on March 30 at 12:32 p.m.

  Sis,

  Oh, the irony. It hurts!

  The Idaho legislature may have unwittingly provided employment protection to PETA supporter, Moslems, Hindus and Scientologists.

  But their halfwitted rejection of protections for sexual orientation and gender identity means they have recognized the possibility of employment discrimination against a heterosexual vegan pharmacist, but rejected such a possibility in the case of a Christian, NRA member who is perceived to be gay.

  If only these people would think …

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  sue on March 30 at 1:11 p.m.

  Let’s not forget the half-witted zealots who voted the half-witted zealots in. Are you all still voting republican?

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  Cis on March 30 at 3:07 p.m.

  State Representatives will pass this, yet sit on a bill that protects children… I just don’t get it…

  right on, Sue.

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