GOP Rep. 'Pharmacists Should Have the Right to Refuse Dispense Abortion Pills'

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They’re just getting warmed up. Carter spoke to hate group leader Tony Perkins of the FRC and said:

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GOP Rep. 'Pharmacists Should Have the Right to Refuse Dispense Abortion Pills'
Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter insists that pharmacists should have the right to deny filling prescriptions for abortifacients.
11:05 AM · Jul 17, 2022

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/07/17/gop-rep-pharmacists-should-have-the-right-to-refuse-dispense-abortion-pills.html

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Women’s access to these medications has always been an issue with regard to the right to privacy, healthcare, and equality, but it is obviously even more at the forefront now. The federal government has issued warnings to pharmacies across the United States that they will be violating civil rights laws if they refuse to fill these prescriptions, and the government does have a hammer to enforce that mandate. Medicare and Medicaid make up perhaps the biggest single source of payments to any pharmacy, and a pharmacy found to violate woman’s rights could lose its eligibility to receive payments through the system.

Indeed, HHS put out the following warning last week:

“The guidance makes clear that as recipients of federal financial assistance, including Medicare and Medicaid payments, pharmacies are prohibited under law from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, and disability in their programs and activities. This includes supplying prescribed medications; making determinations regarding the suitability of prescribed medications for a patient, and advising a patient about prescribed medications and how to take them.”

Of course, just as Congress removed federal funding from any organization that provided abortion services, Congress could change the law regarding Medicare and Medicaid if Republicans take control this coming year, and that fact should be shouted from the mountain tops or people like Carter most certainly will change the law.

Interestingly, Rep. Carter is a pharmacist himself and owns a pharmacy in Savannah, Georgia. The “pro-life” Congressman made quite a bit of money a decade ago supplying a lot of opioids to his customers:

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[2naSalit]

1. No, they do their job...

Sans prejudice or find another line of work.

[blue neen]

2. Apparently Buddy Carter didn't morally object to overdosing people with opioids.

It figures.

[dchill]

3. They have the right to stop being pharmacists.

At any time.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

4. Individual pharmacists may have that right

Pharmacies don't, unless they want to forfeit Medicare & Medicaid $$.

[onecaliberal]

5. It your "religion" precludes you from performing your job duties, you should quit or be fired

Immediately.

[Marthe48]

6. No they shouldn't

If you have a job, you do the job. If you don't like certain aspects of the job, you weigh the pros and cons of staying at that job. If the pros outweigh the cons, you try to find a way to stay in the job. If you can't, you leave the job and go work somewhere else. Don't use some crap clerk job as a platform to proselytize. If you have a degree in pharmacy, stick to what you're getting paid for, or get in another field. If I go to church, I don't expect the preacher to sell me drugs. If I go to a drugstore, I expect the clerks to serve me and the pharmacist to advise me about the drugs I'm getting. There should even be an arguement about this.

The lunatic religious zealots calling the shots need to stop their continuous and ridiculous yammering about faith-based government and laws. And having a monologue that it is okay to impose faith on everyone who happens to be within earshot. It is like letting a tired toddler decide how the day is going to go. It is fine to indulge the toddler until they fall asleep or are distracted by a toy. But if we don't let toddlers' logic to rule our homes, why are we letting these single-minded, unintelligible arguments from single-minded zeolots run our counrty? Ruin our country. I don't want politicians and judges to be influenced by their personal religion. I want them to be knowledgeable about the law and what our Constitution laid out for us to live here. If they can't do that as a public servant, they don't belong in government. I have faith, but I don't let it be the only thing that determines my actions. And I sure as hell don't go around shoving my ideas about faith down anyone's throat.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. Idiot Republican! What about my cancer chemo pills?

They're basically abortion pills too, but am I not supposed to get treatment for cancer?!

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*Talk to your healthcare provider right away if you have unprotected sex or if you think that your birth control has failed
*Tell your healthcare provider right away if you become pregnant or think that you may be pregnant

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[alwaysinasnit]

8. Well, maybe if we want to reduce abortions, pharmacists shouldn't dispense erectile disfunction

medications.

[Politicub]

9. Republicans are gleeful about women dying in agony in the ER,

So it doesn’t surprise me that they would torture more women if given a chance.

It’s the age of the cult of the fetus.

[Claire Oh Nette]

10. Phamacists are not doctors

They are not trained to prescribe medicine, but to compound medicines and fill prescriptions. That's it.

Their beliefs should not enter into a secular job. Not at Walgreen's, not at craft stores, not at Chicken sandwich stores.

Not everyone is an evangelical Christain.

[localroger]

11. They already have the right to seek alternate employment.

Nobody put a gun to their heads and made them become pharmacists. You go into a field, you have to understand what your duties will be if you get a job in that field. If you don't like those duties maybe pick another career.