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Supreme Court rejects pharmacists' religious rights appeal

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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal from Washington state pharmacists who said they have religious objections to dispensing Plan B or other emergency contraceptives.
The justices' order leaves in place rules first adopted in 2007 following reports that some women had been denied access to emergency contraceptives that are effective when taken within a few days of unprotected sex. Pharmacies must fill lawful prescriptions, but individual pharmacists with moral objections can refer patients to another pharmacist, as long as it's at the same store.

Good decision. Religious freedom does not mean the right to force your religion on others.

Article is here.
 
Obviously the right decision.
 
How about the right to decide who gets your labor, property, and association?

And why can't people refuse service because of their religious beliefs? How is forced labor constitutional?

I find it funny that people claim the US is a free country while supporting involuntary servitude, forced association, and forced property transfers.
 
How about the right to decide who gets your labor, property, and association?

And why can't people refuse service because of their religious beliefs? How is forced labor constitutional?

People can refuse, as long as someone else in the same store will do it for them. You realize you are literally defending pharmacists that refuse to give legal drugs to people that should be allowed to have them? Would you support someone that religiously argues that they are against heart or diabetes medication?
 
Not wanting to participate in abortion, is not " forcing your religion on others".

Dana doesn't care about the pharmacist's rights, only the customer.
 
Not wanting to participate in abortion, is not " forcing your religion on others".

They don't have to participate. All they have to do is have someone else at the store who is not a religious extremist that can fill the prescription.
 
Good decision. Religious freedom does not mean the right to force your religion on others.

How is turning you away and giving you nothing forcing anything on you? Please share how this works.
 
They don't have to participate. All they have to do is have someone else at the store who is not a religious extremist that can fill the prescription.

And if no one wants to participate?
 
People can refuse, as long as someone else in the same store will do it for them. You realize you are literally defending pharmacists that refuse to give legal drugs to people that should be allowed to have them? Would you support someone that religiously argues that they are against heart or diabetes medication?

Like a Christian Scientist or a Jehovah's Witness. "Giving you a tetanus shot after stepping on that rusty nail violates my religious freedom. Now get out of here, and go pray to Jesus for healing".
 
Not wanting to participate in abortion, is not " forcing your religion on others".

You aren't participating in abortion, in the same way that scanning alcohol and checking someone out isn't particpating in getting drunk.
 
People can refuse, as long as someone else in the same store will do it for them. You realize you are literally defending pharmacists that refuse to give legal drugs to people that should be allowed to have them? Would you support someone that religiously argues that they are against heart or diabetes medication?

Why does anyone have to fill the prescription? Why is having a prescription give you ownership of another human being?
 
Dana doesn't care about the pharmacist's rights, only the customer.

The pharmacist is generally working in a store that sells these pills. The pharmacist doesn't have rights to refuse sale of something that the store sells.
 
How about the right to decide who gets your labor, property, and association?

And why can't people refuse service because of their religious beliefs? How is forced labor constitutional?

I find it funny that people claim the US is a free country while supporting involuntary servitude, forced association, and forced property transfers.

Public accommodation, pal.
 
You aren't participating in abortion, in the same way that scanning alcohol and checking someone out isn't particpating in getting drunk.

The seller of alcohol does however make it possible to get drunk.
 
The pharmacist is generally working in a store that sells these pills. The pharmacist doesn't have rights to refuse sale of something that the store sells.

What if the store says they do?
 
They don't have to participate. All they have to do is have someone else at the store who is not a religious extremist that can fill the prescription.
Not wanting to participate in abortion does not make one a "religious extremist".
 
The seller of alcohol does however make it possible to get drunk.

And a pharmacist selling a pill does make it possible for contraception.
 
Public accommodation, pal.

Yes, which violates the right to ones labor, property rights, the right to association, and in some cases free speech.
 
The seller of alcohol does however make it possible to get drunk.

Okay, well I believe that I should refuse fat people from buying chips. It leads to heart disease and other health issues.
 
What if the store says they do?

If the store doesn't sell the pills I don't think the pharmacist would have a reason to say they should have the right to not sell them.
 
Why does anyone have to fill the prescription? Why is having a prescription give you ownership of another human being?

They don't have to work in that industry. These people chose to be pharmacists. No one was forcing them. If you don't like the rules and regulations that go with your chosen profession, you are to change professions.
 
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