Re: Pharmacies cannot be allowed to refuse sale of contraceptives
You are the customer and you buy what they have. You do not buy something they don't have. You do not dictate what they can and can not sell in their own stores. You go somewhere else to get what you want. Its common sense and logical.
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Ok, I do have to spell it out.
Read the article. The issue is not whether they carry the items in question. The issue the refusal of sale due to their moral perceptions. Or are you saying those pharmacies never had contraceptives?
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Im a Pharmacy student…and as far as I know, we can refuse to sell contraceptives and provide an alternative place where they can buy them :halo:
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Regardless of you spelling it out or not the shop has the right to do whatever it wants. You are the customer you can be refused service. The pharmacy can deny people access to medicines without a prescription. They can deny access to abusive and addictive medicine if they think there is a chance of an addiction.
This is their choice. It is their store. As you said if you don't like it "pack your bags and scram". Secondly they are doing business fairly. It is their business not yours. You as a customer have no legal nor ethical right to force them to sell you anything at all.
You are infact forcing your moral values on them by asserting that it is ok.
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CM aren't you the one always talking about doing hot babes?
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Yup. But see i am not Roman Catholic.
Re: Pharmacies cannot be allowed to refuse sale of contraceptives
I see, so next time a pilot refuses to fly a plane because a few bearded people happen to board it, that's perfectly fine. Or maybe a racist Lexus car salesman decides that blacks don't deserve luxury cars. It their business, they can do what they like.
If such business are so particular about their customers with their warped sense of ethics, maybe they should put a notice outside their door like no teenage females allowed or maybe no homosexuals or better yet no colored people.
Regardless, in the end it will be the business which will suffer. There is no shortage of competition which are more than willing to accept the unwanted market share.
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Is actually not possible as the pilot does not own the airplane or the airlines. So the action is redundant. It is not company policy it is indivdual policy. Note that the pharmacy refuses to sell a product. It does not descriminate against who it sells it to. Again the example is redundant.
The same applies to a lexus car salesman. A product is not being removed from being sold. Rather you are racially discriminating.
Again you are over reacting. How is not selling a producted equated with racism?
If the business will suffer so be it. You have no justification to impose your own moral values on some one else. You agree that they are imposing their own moral values, yet you attempt to impose your own.
They have every right not to sell a product or a range or products.
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I think he means a pharmacist working at a store owned by someone else, i.e. the pharmacist is a mere employee who refuses a girl looking for morning after pill, even if there are no store policies to that effect.
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I take this from the point of view that it is company policy or that the person dealing with the matter is the owner of the store. I have attempted to make that clear. A business owner has the right to refuse t sell something.
If it is an employee who is using personal judgement not in line with the views of the store then he or she should be fired.
The article does not make the distinction nor does it define it.
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Right on, but to a selective audience? And who makes that selection and under whose moral judgement? Is it consistent throughout the company or upto the whims of whoever is at the cashier at the time?
But I guess these questions go beyond the scope of the article.
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You are too smart to be on this forum. 
I mean it…
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Again what is selective of it. There is no racial discrimination. There is no age discrimation. There is no sexual discrimination. The article states contraceptives, so i naturally assume condoms are included in that.
Again I have stated that the owner has every right to sell what they want on their own moral judgement as it is there shop. They own it.. After all Muslim resturants have the personal moral choice to provide halal or non-halal food. Is that not catering to a selective audience or rather in some cases discriminating against a selective audience?
But you as a customer can not say anything as you are not the owner of the shop.
As for the last question i can not comment. I have assumed that the owner of the store decides. If an employee is deciding without guidance from the owner then it is wrong.
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CM- I agree :k: your arguments are very valid.
however, what do you think about Pharmacists having to sell medicines with alcohol or gelatine etc in them? assuming these are Prescription medicines…would the pharmacist be allowed to refuse it or not? I mean how far do u take it?
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Your analogy to Halal restaurants is invalid. It would be discrimination if the restaurants specified that ONLY Muslim cutomers would be served.
A pharmacy is not just some sabzi wala that can change prices or commodities according to the whims of the owner at the time. The article clearly states the refusal to file prescriptions of morning after pills. I doubt any couple would be stupid enough to walk in a pharmacy for morning after pills which has an advertised pro life stance. Clearly the pharmacy is at fault with their incosistent policies which haven’t been made public.
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Exactly. Agreed it would specifically discriminatory if only muslims would be served. In the same breath the pharmacy would be discriminating if it said only white women between the ages of 18 and 24 will be served.
Until then it is perfectly fine.
It gives that as an example, otherwise all contraseptives are not sold. Now a question wouldn’t it be wrong in the US (i know it is wrong under US law) to advertise your moral values on a billboard at your shop.
Who said they have to make their policies public. Show me legislation or even precedence which says you have to. Secondly what is inconsistant about it? They don’t sell. They don’t sell. No inconsistancy there.