Wal mart forced to provide contraception pill
I don't know what to think about this one.
Of course, I am happy that women in Massechusets can get birth control, but I have a problem with forcing any business to provide a specific product. Pharmacies should have the right not to carry medicines they don't want to, whether it's narcotic drugs that make them a target for robbery or birth control that interferes with their morality.
I feel my inner liberal saying, "What if it's the only pharmacy in town?"
This is America, there's a walgreens on every corner.
"What if no pharmacy will stand up to religious protesters and provide the medicine?"
Then you may have a legitimate greivance. But if I have a shop, and someone tells me I have to sell crucifixes, I'm gonna say no. That's my right, I own a shop, I can sell what I want. If you want something I don't have, suing me isn't the right way to get it. Go buy it somewhere else.
"But medicines are different from other goods, they're regulated, and it's not that easy to open a pharmacy, you have to have a DEA license, a pharmacist license, you know the drill."
You're right, I guess we don't have 'free markets' after all!
All of this would be solved if we just take the Guns N Dope party's advice and have a truly "free market" and remove all regulation of pharmacuticals. Imagine getting viagra at circle K! You could get a slurpee, condoms, viagra and cigarettes for later, all within walking distance of your neighborhood brothel!
Go free market capitalism!
But until then, I guess we have to force pharmacies to carry birth control, or the zealots will intimidate the pharmacists into submission.
Of course, I am happy that women in Massechusets can get birth control, but I have a problem with forcing any business to provide a specific product. Pharmacies should have the right not to carry medicines they don't want to, whether it's narcotic drugs that make them a target for robbery or birth control that interferes with their morality.
I feel my inner liberal saying, "What if it's the only pharmacy in town?"
This is America, there's a walgreens on every corner.
"What if no pharmacy will stand up to religious protesters and provide the medicine?"
Then you may have a legitimate greivance. But if I have a shop, and someone tells me I have to sell crucifixes, I'm gonna say no. That's my right, I own a shop, I can sell what I want. If you want something I don't have, suing me isn't the right way to get it. Go buy it somewhere else.
"But medicines are different from other goods, they're regulated, and it's not that easy to open a pharmacy, you have to have a DEA license, a pharmacist license, you know the drill."
You're right, I guess we don't have 'free markets' after all!
All of this would be solved if we just take the Guns N Dope party's advice and have a truly "free market" and remove all regulation of pharmacuticals. Imagine getting viagra at circle K! You could get a slurpee, condoms, viagra and cigarettes for later, all within walking distance of your neighborhood brothel!
Go free market capitalism!
But until then, I guess we have to force pharmacies to carry birth control, or the zealots will intimidate the pharmacists into submission.
posted by JC at 12:27 AM
1 Comments:
I see your point.
I didn't realize that the pharmacy was refusing to sell pills, rather, just an individual pharmacist. In that case, get another pharmacist to fill and ring up your pills. It's a hard call to make. However, does the pharmacist own the pharmacy? In that case, he may have the right to refuse. Or, is it a chain? I am not sure how Walgreens or CVS works but if they are nationally owned, can they really refuse to sell something in one store? I know we don't sell green chiles here in Columbus. It is not because the stores hate me and want to piss me offbut because there is no real market for them. With the bc pills, that is a different story. I know tons of people who take them and every time I go to the doctor, they are always wanting to give them to me.
Next thing you know, the pharmacy will refuse to sell you Tylenol after you've had a vasectomy or hysterectomy.
If I had a store, I wouldn't want to be forced to sell something. But at the same time, if I wanted to get my diaphragm and had to drive to the next town to get it, I'd be pissed.
Pissing off an aroused woman in need of her birth control method of choice is a good way to see her husband hurt.
Great argument.
Now, where did I put my diaphragm?
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