He had a pretty good idea
More on that New Mexico Walgreens:
Two advocacy organizations filed discrimination complaints against an Albuquerque Walgreens pharmacy for allegedly refusing to fill a birth control prescription.
The complaint, sent to the New Mexico Human Rights Bureau, was written by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and the Southwest Women’s Law Center. The organizations allege a pharmacy employee at a store on Coors Boulevard refused to fill a misoprostol prescription to a teenage woman who was at the store with her mother last August, citing personal reasons.
This refusal, according to two complaints, violates the New Mexico Human Rights Act, which bars discrimination based on sex.
“Refusing to fill prescriptions that are directly tied to the attributes that make women different from men—i.e. the ability to become pregnant—constitutes sex discrimination,” the complaints read.
You mean we shouldn’t all get together as a society to micromanage everything women and girls do? You mean it’s none of our business? What a radical notion.
According to the complaints, the teenage woman and her mother, whose names are only referred to with initials, were also picking up an IUD and anti-anxiety medicine at the pharmacy. The pharmacist, Jesse Garrett, filled two of the prescriptions but made the mother and daughter fill the misoprostol prescription at another Walgreens location.
The mother then “had no choice but to drive to the alternate Walgreens pharmacy in rush hour traffic to pick up the medication, which was a significant inconvenience for her,” according to the complaints.
The mother went back to the first location, on Coors Boulevard, to complain. She spoke with the pharmacist, who “explained in a judgmental tone that he was refusing to fill the prescription because he had a ‘pretty good idea’ for what purpose the medication would be used,” according to the complaints.
Godalmighty. What world is this.
“I know what you’ve been up to, little goyl,” the pharmacist said, as he leaned over the counter and leered at the fifteen[*]-year-old girl as he pantomimed…
He seems nice. Probably a good Christian.
[*] Actual age not known.
The pharmacist “explained in a judgmental tone that he was refusing to fill the prescription because he had a ‘pretty good idea’ for what purpose the medication would be used.” Really? How did he know it wasn’t being prescribed to treat acne or dysmenorrhea?
For crying out loud – if you cannot do important parts of your job because of your religious beliefs, it’s on you to find another one. We don’t have Jews and Muslims hired as pork BBQ taste-testers and allowed to sit around all day with their mouths devoutly shut and still get paid, in deference to their religious beliefs. And it’s doubtful that these people belong to churches that have it as an agreed part of their theology that no support, however indirect, may be offered for anything with any potential to harm an embryonic human – not that that would even be a deciding point, but in its absence, they’ve got even less to stand on.
Imagine someone trying to get conscientious objector status or political asylum based on religious persecution with nothing more than these people have to show for their “sincerely held religious beliefs”. But hey, apparently, misogyny is something so religiously universal there’s no threshold at all for demonstrating your rock-ribbed sincerity about it and we must all respect it.
I find it interesting that the ACLU understands sex discrimination in the case of birth control but not in the case of sex-segregated bathrooms.
These are protections I fear we will lose if the Trans Movement has its way.
#5 – My first thought too, only not as elegantly put.
Secondly: So this son-of-god Jesse had a less good idea what an IUD was for? Now, I am not a US Pharmacist, but I have a better idea what that is for than [ misoprostol ] whatever that may be called in other stores / countries / continents.
Rrr, as a pharmacy worker, I suspect he had a good idea that misoprostol can be used for abortion. The scenario I have no doubt that was going through his head was using the misoprostol to perform the abortion on the girl, then using the IUD to make sure it doesn’t happen again. If that’s true, good for the mother for being supportive and helping the girl get what she needed.
The thing that surprises me is that he was willing to fill the IUD. A lot of devout sorts hate the IUD because they don’t like the idea that a fertilized egg might be prevented from implanting (never mind that a large percentage of fertilized eggs just naturally don’t implant anyway, courtesy of nature, or, in their worldview, God, the great omniabortionist in the sky).
Thanks, iknklast.
You can get an IUD at the pharmacy? I thought that was effectively minor surgery…
Yes, handing an IUD across the counter seems doubtful. Unless they’ve changed a lot over the years, they require insertion by a trained person.
And, ever and always, these Xtians have Biblical amnesia about issues like serving divorced patients. These are ALL ‘adulterers’ according to Jesus.
Re: #9 & #10
When I got my IUD I had to purchase it through a pharmacy and bring it with me to the gyne. At the time (pre-ACA), thanks to my husband’s Catholic business owner employer our insurance would not cover the device, but did cover the procedure, which was I think billed non-specifically as something like “minor surgical procedure”.
Hi all, misoprostol in this context would be to dilate her cervix to make it possible to insert the IUD. Which makes it even more stupid of that pharmacist to go ahead and dispense the IUD without the misoprostol. The pharmacist does get paid a lot more for the IUD than for two little pills so I wonder if that is a factor. As a GP I insert lots of IUDs which the pharmacist sells to the patient and the patient brings in to me for insertion.