"Becky's Story...

I'd like to share my personal experience at the Pamida Pharmacy on Saturday, April 16th, 2005.

I walked up to a busy counter with a prescription for two medications. The pharmacist took the note and told me she'd fill one medication, but I'd have to come back on Monday to have the birth control filled by the other pharmacist. I verbally questioned this, because she herself was a pharmacist. Her answer was "for moral reasons I will not fill a birth control prescription."

I challenged the pharmacist by telling her, "It's a valid medical prescription signed by a medical doctor. Your other customers are receiving service. I shouldn't have to come back Monday when I'm here now." I was refused a second time on the same grounds and told to try another pharmacy. My response, "No, my insurance information is here and this is where I come to get my prescriptions." I was refused a third time. When I asked her to show me written documentation that would give her a legal right to refuse, she had nothing to show me.

Correspondence with the Pamida pharmacist manager was most disturbing. I was again told to come back when the other pharmacist was working or to follow a sticker on the prescription that instructs the patient to call in their refill a week ahead of time. Although they upheld the actions of their pharmacist, I was not told anything regarding their policy on the issue or given any evidence that the pharmacist acted within her legal right.

We are constantly being confronted with such emotionally charged issues as abortion, family welfare, domestic abuse, etc. It seems very contradictory to refuse a product whose absence will only make these issues more volatile."



If you want to be anti-choice fine, but to not fill a prescription for birth control (not killing a baby by the way) because of moral reasons, well don't be a fucking pharmacist then. I bet these same assholes fill plenty of prescriptions for all of those great addictive controlled substances so commonly prescribed, sleep aids, anit-depressants, you name it.

Not that I would ever walk into a Walmart in the first place, (for many reasons) but if one of their right wingers are working at the pharmy counter you can count on not having your prescription filled. Walmart doesn't feel it should require it's pharmacists to fill anything they don't want to.

Gotta love these only fuck to procreate assholes.