Like a 103-year-old wheelchair-bound leper hands out spoiled candy to trick-or-treaters, Pro Life belches medical advice. They have spread the good word to pharmacists who operate under the guise of Pharmacists for Life International.
Pharmacists for Life? Is there any other kind?
To understand the naming choice, you have to understand that these are not your ordinary Ash Wednesday Catholics who don’t believe in abortion but won’t badger other people. These are your five-day coast-to-coast revival I Alone Serve The One True God™ holy rejects for whom the No Child Left Behind Act should make serious exceptions.
A quick perusal of their website reveals that they are not merely Pro-Life. No.
“”The Pharmacists for Life International site, for example, in addition to having an incredibly sophisticated web design….” –radical abortoholic website, Feministing, accessed 16 Jun 2008 AD…thanks, girls!” – atop pfli.org
They are Pro-Life…with ATTITUDE.
AD? As opposed to accessing that blog on “16 Jun 2008 BC”?
Abortoholic? Really? What do you all think women do? That they walk around with pills in a bag marked ‘Plan B’ and a coat hanger in another bag marked ‘Plan C’?
A serious detriment to anyone Pro-Choice, pro-intelligence, or pro-stay-the-hell-out-of-my-life, groups of Pharmacists have decided that their spiritual beliefs should outweigh years of schooling and training and the whole goal of their profession, ‘to help folks out (at a jacked up cost)’ in order to create drugstores that refuse to sell Plan B pills, birth control pills, or condoms. As PFLI founder Karen Bauer puts it, “This allows a pharmacist who does not wish to be involved in stopping a human life in any way to practice in a way that feels comfortable.”
Excellent point. Because if there is one goal our society strives for, it is the preservation of human life. See also: capital punishment.
What’s the alternative to contraceptives? More unwanted babies? Would these self-proclaimed Pro-Life Pharmacists want these babies? Perhaps we should see. If not, then unwanted pregnancies help create abortions. By refusing to sell contraceptives, you become part of the very problem you wish to fight.
My advice? Buy a bigger house, if you truly care so much.
Other options? Just don’t do it, kids. Great. Except not everyone is strong enough to resist overwhelming biological urges. Some people just cannot say ‘no’. You may have seen some of them. Chances are, you call them ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’.
John Bruchalski, chair of PFLI’s board of directors, defends these actions, “We’re trying not to leave our faith at the door. We’re trying to create an environment where belief and professionalism come together.”
This is not a merger of belief and professionalism. This is the consumption of professionalism by belief, who is fairly ravenous. His belly never seems to be full.
Of course, belief requires compliance to overrun one’s life. It is natural to have beliefs, whether it’s from fear of the unknown, fear of the unexplained, or a measure of comfort to which people turn when life becomes a little too heavy.
However, when said belief interferes in your chosen profession, then perhaps it’s time to reconsider your profession.
Ultimately, it isn’t a case of abortion being right or wrong, or the morality of contraceptives. They have shifted to pharmaceutical diversity. Should we have such diversity among pharmacies? Loren E. Lomasky, bioethicist at the University of Virginia seems to think so. After all, if we have “20 different brands of toothpaste, why not a few different conceptions on how pharmacies ought to operate?”
Different brands of a product differ slightly (well, a lot) from the total elimination of certain options in pharmacies, especially one founded on what amounts to a moral objection. The obligation of anyone in the medical profession is to serve patients’ best interests, not what you think their best interests to be.
They claim they are protecting the mother from harm to due the potential effects of the Plan B pill. As for the other contraceptives, they claim they are protecting the unborn child and the mother. But who are they really protecting?
Their power over people.
Their radical beliefs push them to abandon their professional obligations in favor of an unrelated agenda. The statement “couples do have a choice: to get pregnant” is horribly flawed because it implies that pregnancy is a choice. For some it isn’t.
And for all, the choice whether or not to risk bringing an unwanted child who cannot be fed and who cannot be taken care of into the world must not be hindered by a vocal, twisted minority.
If they truly want all these children in the world, then give them the kids. Since they sell Viagra but not contraceptives, they clearly want children. Give them what they want.
Be generous.
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Thanks for the information on pharmacists. That’s very interesting…”pharnacists for life”.
We recently wrote an article on pharmacists at Brain Blogger. Though pharmacists don’t have official “prescribing power”, most medical and surgical teams have a pharmacist on hand. Does their position in the medical food chain give them a power equivalent to that?
We would like to read your comments on our article. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Kelly