Tell Congress to protect your access to birth control

More and more women are being denied their doctor-prescribed birth control pills across the country.

As many as 20 states have laws on the books that put a pharmacist’s personal views above a woman’s right to safe and legal birth control – making it even easier for pharmacists to deny women access to prescription contraceptives. Birth control is basic health care for the vast majority of American women, and no third party should be able to stop a woman from taking responsibility for her reproductive health!

That's why a bipartisan group of pro-choice members of Congress - Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT), and others have introduced a bill to ensure that women can get their birth control prescriptions filled - without intimidation, inconvenience, or delay. Under the Access to Legal Pharmaceuticals Act (ALPhA), pharmacies would be responsible for filling women’s birth control prescriptions even if a pharmacist refuses for personal reasons.

Please send a letter to your federal lawmakers urging them to support this bill. Help us put a stop to the far-right’s anti-birth control agenda by taking action today!


http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/557320029

 

This makes me so mad. I work at a pharmacy where one of the pharmacists refuses to give out the morning after pill because she doesnt agree with it. As far as Im concerned if shes against the birth control she can raise all the unwanted babies that result from no contraceptives. She would be changing her tune then. Damm bitch.

 

...and they cry "murder" when a woman has an abortion. If this pharmacist is the boss, the pro-choice patrons need to consider boycotting the establishment and let the local pro-choice sympathetic groups know of the situation. If she isn't, the boss needs to have a talk with her.

 

the problem is...it is seen as forcing someone to do something against their religion. That is a big BIG no no in the US. It is probably our most sacred right.

I have never been in a pharmacy with only one pharmacist and i live in a tiny, tiny town(and there are LOTS). If one wont fill it..another should.

It is kinda ironic actually. These pharmacists are saying you're trying to impose your beliefs on them. You(pro choice people) are saying they are forcing their views on you.

 

I see what you are saying, megara, I really do. BUT, why would someone who is dead set against birth control choice to work in a profession that dispenses it? If you choose to work somewhere that causes a moral dillemma for you, that's your problem. Would a vegan who chooses to work at McDonalds be able to complain about frying up a hamburger? Yeah. Could they refuse to do it? Yeah, but they better start looking for another job.

It is not the pharmacists place to dictate who gets their medicine.

 

birth control is probably .000001%(yes, an exageration) of what a pharmacist distributes.

mcdonalds sells virtually all meat. It is not the same, imo. And i dont think veganism is protected by the US constitution(not sure if its been 'interpreted' as a religion..yet)

A better analogy(imo) is with euthanasia. Many people become doctors to save lives..should a person who wants to save lives be forced to take a life? No, you find someone else.

I have a real problem with pharmacists who take prescriptions and refuse to give them back. That is going wayyyyyyy to far. I dont think we should force someone to distribute something that is against their religion, though.

 

well, it's not like you can't get your pills elsewhere. i agree with megara on this one.

 

i disagree, if the pharmacist doesn't agree with birth control then that's their own problem and their job is to sell medication, not shove their morals down other peoples throats. it's so annoying how fascist people are, if someone has different views than you they need to accept that and not act like 5 year olds about it. if someone has medication for a heart problem and the pharmicist says oh i dont beleive in that medication and the person dies is that okay too? besides people use birth control pills for other reasons like my friend is on birth control to lessen cramps and the pharmacist doesnt know what its used for. i know people have other opinions and i need to respect it but im amazed someone could actually think its okay to be that fascist, how about if you were at the grocery store and the clerk wouldn't sell you meat because it's against their beleifs is that okay too? if everyone acted so childish about these things and said oh i dont like this so you can't do it then where would we be? they act like we are infringing on their beleifs but its okay for them to do it to us? how exactly does this work? all i want is a damn medication not a lesson on someone elses morals.

/end of rant

 

so you want to end this fascism by being fascist?

 

I agree, the phamisists can shut up and give birth controll and doctors can prescribe euthanasia (in Oregon).

 

i knew someone would say something like that, wanting people to have freedom of choice without narrowminded assholes shoving their morals down their throat is fascist? do explain this to me. i know part of the christian religion is to basically shove your ideals down others throats and try to get everyone else to beleive the same things as you but freedom of religion can go too far...the people that supposedly did the wtc attacks claimed their religion tells them to kill americans so i suppose the wtc attacks were okay too? people should be able to beleive what they want sure but that doesnt mean they can do whatever they want and its okay

 

RE: I really do. BUT, why would someone who is dead set against birth control choice to work in a profession that dispenses it?

Maybe cause they went into medicine to save lives not end them.

 

RE: wanting people to have freedom of choice without narrowminded assholes shoving their morals down their throat is fascist? do explain this to me

I do not agree with the position these pharmacists hold - but let me say simply this. If I believed that giving you access to that chemical is murdering a baby and that by doing so I'm an accessory to that, then you can threaten to sue or whatever, but you are NOT forcing me to do something against my values.

YOU would be more than welcome to make the drive ELSEWHERE and to find someone else who agrees with your life choices.

As I said. I don't agree with the pharmacist, but then again, I can respect his or her right to his or her value system.

 

the pharmacist can beleive whatever they want, but that doesnt mean they need to inconvenience everyone else, if i worked at mcdonalds and refused to serve fries because i thought they were evil then that wouldnt make any sense at all, because im not there to please myself my job is to help other people and thats what i would be getting paid for. i shouldnt have to go to another pharmacy just because someone is too immature to accept the fact that other people have different beleifs than them. dont like birth control? then dont take it, problem solved, if anyone else wants to then thats their choice and the pharmacist has no right to refuse that. people are just too damn narrowminded. sure its better for the girl to get pregnant and get an abortion than to prevent the pregnancy in the first place, right.