Originally Posted by
Duff Man
...and taking it further, I find it ironic that pharmacists are allowed descretion as to who is allowed the "morning after pill", and prescribed birth control. Even worse, hospitols that have religious affiliations have full descretion as far as rape victims go. If 13 year old Angela is raped and ends up in ER at St. Josephs instead of *insert name here* hospital, it's up to the hospitol to decide if abortion is an option — regardless of state law.
Makes me sick.
Andy, I thought that pharmacists had the right to not dispense BC or the morning after pill for religous reasons but someone else in the pharmacy could. If this is the case I have nothing wrong with that but you are right, they should not be able to arbitrarily decide who does and does not get birth control or the morning after pill.
As far as hopitals go, if they are a privately funded religous hospital then by all means they have that right to decide not to perform abortions or provide the morning after pill. Any time I have been in an ambulance I have been given the option of what hospital to go to, the religious or the state/private funded secular hospital. People have a choice on where they go and if it is life or death it should not make a difference. I know abortion can be life or death sometimes when there is a complication in the pregnancy and in those instances I think the abortion is allowed to save the life of the mother.