'Pro-Life' Drugstores Market Beliefs

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Washington Post

When DMC Pharmacy opens this summer on Route 50 in Chantilly, the shelves will be stocked with allergy remedies, pain relievers, antiseptic ointments and almost everything else sold in any drugstore. But anyone who wants condoms, birth control pills or the Plan B emergency contraceptive will be turned away.

That's because the drugstore, located in a typical shopping plaza featuring a Ruby Tuesday, a Papa John's and a Kmart, will be a "pro-life pharmacy" -- meaning, among other things, that it will eschew all contraceptives.

The pharmacy is one of a small but growing number of drugstores around the country that have become the latest front in a conflict pitting patients' rights against those of health-care workers who assert a "right of conscience" to refuse to provide care or products that they find objectionable.

"The United States was founded on the idea that people act on their conscience -- that they have a sense of right and wrong and do what they think is right and moral," said Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel at the Thomas More Society, a Chicago public-interest law firm that is defending a pharmacist who was fined and reprimanded for refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control pills. "Every pharmacist has the right to do the same thing," Brejcha said.

But critics say the stores could create dangerous obstacles for women seeking legal, safe and widely used birth control methods.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/15/AR2008061502180.html?hpid=topnews

[Cleita]

1. Let them. But make them by law put a sign in their window that they are

pro-life so I can buy my drugs somewhere else, like at the K-Mart.

[BonnieJW]

18. Not only your drugs,

but everything: toothpaste, aspirin, disposable diapers. Let everyone know through letters to the editor that those stores embrace a philosophy that excludes some customers' needs.

[smoogatz]

2. Well, I'd never set foot in one.

And I think a lot of people would react the same way, just on principle. Hard to see how limiting your customer base from the get-go is a good business move. But whatever.

[Iris]

3. I hope more of these stories come out before November - so people can see what "pro-life" really

means to some of these nuts.

[Warpy]

4. I think they need truth in advertising.

They need to advertise themselves as MEN'S DRUGSTORES.

Men will undoubtedly find all they need except condoms but including limp willie drugs.

Women's health will be unprotected.

There is nothing pro life about people whose actions will lead to higher death rates among the half of the population they discriminate against.

I think their licenses to dispense need to be pulled. Any pharmacist who refuses to fill a legal prescription needs to find another line of work.

[AnneD]

28. Warpy....

you know what they would to you if as a Nurse, you refused to take care of a patient, say a child molester because that was against your beliefs? They would yank you before a Nursing Board and strip you of your license faster than you can say malpractice. So why arm Pharms any different-they aren't and they need to get out of the profession if they don't or won't exercise their trust.

[Warpy]

33. Exactly, and the situation you described came up

when a bunch of guys heard a kid screaming and caught the perp in the act. They weren't gentle and I cared for him in the ICU. I cared for him to the best of my ability because it was my job, because of who I am, and because in this country we let the law and the person's own god sort it all out.

That's why I think these places should not have licenses to dispense. It's not in a pharmacist's job description to guess why a doctor prescribed any drug and to make any moral judgment over dispensing it according to law and his job description.

Any pharmacist who refuses to dispense a medication on a legal prescription for no other reason than pious squeamishness needs to have letters of complaint written to the state licensing board. Such pharmacists should not be allowed to practice.

[dflprincess]

5. These clowns need to find another line of work

When you think about it, damn near everything sold in a pharmacy runs contrary to what God apparently planned for humans. If you have hay fever, you should just accept it and wheeze. Headache? Offer your suffering up for your sins. Need an antibiotic? - Sorry, God intended some people to die of infection.

[WCGreen]

17. excellent point...

[LeftyMom]

6. Hormonal contraceptives have other uses, as well.

I take one to shorten my periods and reduce my natural tendency to mild anemia. A friend takes one in order to get her body on something resembling a normal cycle as part of her infertility treatment. Still other people take them to reduce the symptoms and spread of endometriosis while preventing hysterectomy and preserving future fertility.

Also, there are a lot of medications that can only be taken when one is on an effective method of birth control, because they cause serious birth defects. Do these "pro-life" pharmacies issue them?

[KnaveRupe]

7. Personally, I'm waiting for Scientologist drug stores that won't sell antidepressants.

Quick - someone get Tom Cruise on the phone! Stat!

This idea will make us gazillions!

[DBoon]

13. or a Christian Scientist drug-store

they will sell sunglasses, perfume, and greeting cards. period.

[8 track mind]

16. ok,

thats f-ing funny!!!!

:yourock: :rofl:

[MountainLaurel]

20. It's not just Scientologists

I was taught in a Baptist church that mental illness doesn't really exist and is just a sign of man's selfish nature. The pastor still does presentations on the topic to churches across the country.

[Raster]

8. No, it will NOT be a "pro-life" pharmacy, it will be an "anti-choice" pharmacy.

[pattmarty]

9. Overall I don't believe it will work. Sure, you will have a few.......

....."independent" stores in conservative regions that will do OK, but this is a flash in the pan thing and you won't be hearing ANYTHING much about it come next year.

[supernova]

31. That's what I'm hoping

they won't get enough forced birth customers to keep them in business.

[pattmarty]

35. Yep. Their bullshit is starting to get thin with MOST people by now.

[uppityperson]

10. How is not stocking condoms "pro-life"?

I'd call it anti-sex.

[Lautremont]

12. ESIS, you know!

[HockeyMom]

15. They must be catholic, not just christian

No BC whatsoever.

[ihavenobias]

19. I'd say it's pro-abortion, considering birth control is the best way to reduce unintended pregnancy

These clowns are over the top.

[Jimbo S]

21. Condoms prevent "God's will" from taking place.

:eyes:

[Deja Q]

32. "God's will"? Or "Gerald's willie"?

:hide:

[Occulus]

40. Holy SHIT, them's some powerful condoms

:silly:

[DBoon]

11. Do they provide child care for employees and customers?

Do they discount pediatric meds?

Or are they really the "anti-sex" drug store, not the "pro-life" drug store?

[Miss Chybil]

23. I wonder if they're going to discount diapers and formula, too.

Will they provide for school lunches and pay extra taxes to cover food stamps for all those new babies that are going to be popping up from the girls and boys who can't afford to raise kids, but did scrape together ten bucks for a box of condoms? Maybe, they'll sell chastity belts.

[KamaAina]

14. Run from DMC!

As far and as fast as you can!

[Miss Chybil]

22. Let's see what the free market has to say about this.

It will be interesting...

[Beaverhausen]

24. Will they stock viagra?

[momster]

26. Need you ask?

Of course they will...anything to keep men 'up' and women down.

[Jimbo S]

39. "Excuse me, Doc. Do you have anything that will give me a boner...

so I can knock up my wife? Any Viagra on hand?"

[leftchick]

25. A wierd faction of the Catholic Church (OD) has started this...

and look at this creep....


Robert Semler will run DMC Pharmacy, set to open in Chantilly.

this smells like Opus Dei. I need to check it out...


The DMC Pharmacy opening in August marks an expansion by Divine Mercy Care in Fairfax, a nonprofit health-care organization that adheres to the teachings of the Catholic Church. The group runs the Tepeyac Family Center, an obstetrics-gynecology practice in Fairfax that offers "natural family planning" instead of contraceptives, sterilization or abortion.

"We're trying not to leave our faith at the door," said John Bruchalski, who chairs the group's board of directors, noting that one of the organization's major goals is helping needy, uninsured patients obtain health care. "We're trying to create an environment where belief and professionalism come together."

Like the doctors, nurses and other staff members at Tepeyac, Robert Semler, the pharmacist who will run DMC Pharmacy, plans to start each workday with a prayer with his staff, which at first will just be his wife, Pam, a nurse.

"Being a faith-based workplace, it's a logical thing to do," Semler said.


http://st-catherines.net/bullets/08/Jan27.txt


Tepeyac Family Center, LLC
Dedicated To The Sanctity of Human Life &
Natural Fertility Awareness

Tepeyac Family Center, the pro-life OB-GYN practice in
Fairfax, Virginia is pleased to announce the addition of
two Catholic OB-GYN physicians to the staff. Tepeyac is
the only Catholic health care practice in the Arlington
Diocese, and with six practicing physicians, they are now
accepting new OB and GYN patients. To make an
appointment, email: [email protected] or call
703.273.9440.


Here is a great blog dissecting the WaPo article...

Dominionist pharmacies: the newest front in the war on women's health


http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/6/16/13144/2040

[momster]

27. Jeez, I thought McCain was White!

This guy's got a head like an incandescent bulb!

[micraphone]

37. "We're trying not to leave our faith at the door,"

- "Just Kidding!"

[Ian David]

29. Will they sell cigarettes to a pregnant woman? n/t

[damntexdem]

30. And how can they be licensed as drug stores?

Wait until someone dies because they could not get a needed prescription filled because the drugstore owners objected to some one of the uses of the medicine.

[and-justice-for-all]

34. They do not have sell it...

and we do not have to buy jack shit there.

[galledgoblin]

36. this will be the setting

for a hilarious comedy skit.

"a very nervous and sweaty young man, evidently (from his dress) on a date, comes barreling onto the set from stage right, looking desperately for the prophylactics..."

[Endangered Specie]

38. Captain Picard's response:

[newspeak]

41. I wished some would not call them pro-life

they are anti-abortionists or anti-conception control or anti-woman-but, most also believe in capitol punishment, killing those brown people for their resources and against social programs after said children are born. It is about control women's choices, and some women are against their own gender. Hitler banned abortion, was he pro-life? Couscous (sp.) in Romania banned abortion and forced women to birth up to five children, was he pro-life? It's about control. Also, when a church endorses having many babies, like the Mormons or fundie Catholics, usually, it's about membership. More members, more money in the ole coffers and power.