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Dec. 1st, 2005 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
birdwatcherВот говорят бездушные корпорации, бездушные корпорации, а Волгринз, оказывается, помогает переехать в Миссури тем своим аптекарям, кто не хочет торговать противозачаточными таблетками, как этого требует шизофренический Иллинойский закон.
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Date: 2005-12-01 07:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 07:56 pm (UTC)ST. LOUIS -- Walgreen Co. said it has put four Illinois pharmacists in the St. Louis area on unpaid leave for refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception in violation of a state rule.
(Did you read the article itself?)
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Date: 2005-12-01 07:58 pm (UTC)I actually have not, I just read Birdwatcher's commentary.
I'll read it now.
Thanks.
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 08:03 pm (UTC)I don't think that the company should be actually helping these pharmacists to get licences in MO, let alone "facilitate" the move (that usually means paying moving expenses etc).
The fact that Walgreens is willing to employ pharmacists who broke an explicit state law by moving them accross the river strikes me as wrong.
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 08:10 pm (UTC)I believe that just as a doctor must treat every patient (including gang members, prisoners, someone unable to pay in the ER, etc), the pharmacies must fill every prescription.
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:12 pm (UTC)"Must", ты имеешь в виду, должны иметь моральное обязательство? Может оно и так, но не юридическое же. Ты же не скажешь, что если я продаю столы, тем самым обязуюсь продавать и стулья тоже.
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 08:19 pm (UTC)не будт продавать средства от облысения, в другом от волосатости.
Бардак из-за того, что в пределач одной компании произвол.
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:22 pm (UTC)А частные пусть делают что хотят.
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 08:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 08:27 pm (UTC)I don't think that your analogy works quite well. There is a very large time frame over which a customer can buy chairs to match a table (in my case, for the antique dining room table it took me a couple of months to find those wooden chairs). :-) However, for a morning-after pill, there is a definite time limit, 48 hours. If a woman takes the pill later, it will not work and may, in addition, be harmful to her health.
In many towns, Walgreens is the only pharmacy that works overnight, and sometimes the only pharmacy in town. Women looking to take the pill often have small chilren, limited economic means (women who can afford to be on the normal birth control pill or IUD don't take the Morning After stuff that, in addition to moral reprecussions, makes a woman pretty sick), and likely limited access to cars (one car per family, the father works, etc).
As long as this medication is approved by the FDA and can be prescribed by a doctor, the pharmacies cannot impose their own religious beliefs onto towns.
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:32 pm (UTC)With all the regulation involved in opening a pharmacy (there are a TON of SOPs etc one must follow, and be certified for following), I don't think it would be practical to open a Morning After pill shop.
B/c places like Walgreens buy in bulk, there is no way for an independent pharmacy to compete.
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:35 pm (UTC)If they are transferred to St. Louis, it's annoying, but you are right - it's fine. If nothing else, it will allow the citizens of MO to realize that they are getting all the pro-life pharmacists from IL and pass their own law. :-) (I hope)
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:37 pm (UTC)For example, it may employ 3-4 pharmacists per pharmacy (it's a 24/7 operation after all), and only 1-2 of them refuse to file the prescriptions. As a result, the same amount of medicine is sold, the safe side effects are experienced by all customers who bought and took it, but more of those customers wil have to go on to have surgical abortions b/c the morning after pill did not work.
Grrrrrr....