Caring for Your Uterus…for You
January 17, 2007
Another reason Ohio really sucks. We’re growing our own “it’s not your egg, it’s God’s” fundie idiots.
A couple go to their local Wally World (that was their second mistake) to get Plan B- available now without prescription. But Wally World Pharmacist-on-God’s-side just laughed and refused to give it to her. Why? Because “he believes “in preserving life, and I do not believe in ending life, and life begins at conception.” And this guy is educated? I mean, if you’re a pharmacist you have to have gone to college and learned something about medicine. Right? So this bonehead would know something about this medication. Right?[1]
Unfortunately, this kind of thing is getting more common. Pharmacists-on-God’s-side determining if women can have birth control if they aren’t married, if they are married, and probably after a long sermon at one of those mega-Focus-on-the-Family churches screaming how women are supposed to service their husbands and bear as many children as possible in the shortest amount of time possible. So, instead of this bastard finding another line of work, possibly at a Catholic hospital where no birth control is ever dispensed, he joins the Wally World hell team to decide what is best for the feminine customer.
I’d like to say that it’s just Wal-Mart- though Wal-Mart does say that they’ll carry the drugs, but they won’t discipline any pharmacist that refuses to dispense the drugs. But that’s wrong. Recently a pharmacist was fired from CVS for failing to fill a B.C. prescription. There are laws introduced around the country to either back up these Pharmacists-on-God’s-side or force them to do their damned jobs. Obviously, the proposed legislation in each state depends on how strong the Christian Right lobbying campaign is. It’s looking a lot like Ohio is leaning back toward the dark ages.
Governor Strickland, with whom I had high hopes when voting for him, says “[he] has no specific plans but “does not believe (pharmacists) should be engaging in that kind of behavior,” spokesman Keith Dailey said”. That’s right, he’s pandering to both fucking sides, the traitor. He’ll give the issue some lip service for the liberals that voted him in, but will back away because he’s afraid of the God’s soldiers who may have voted for him too.
I will be writing a letter to both him and my state congress people. I like to do that. I’ll tell them what assholes they are for not nipping this “I’m against contraceptives” shit from pharmacists in the bud. And I’m sure I’ll get back a letter saying they’ll take my views into consideration. I’m sure it’ll be the law soon that I’m to wear dresses down to my ankles and my hair tied in a bun. It’s only a matter of time before they go from digging their dirty slimy hands into my uterus to dictating what hangs in my closet.
[1] In case you don’t know, Plan B prevents conception and is not an abortion pill, as so many fundie idiots would have us believe.
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January 17th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
EVEN IF the pill caused an abortion (and there may be a fertilized egg floating around that gets eliminated–some peeps would say this counts as aborting), it’s still not the pharmacist’s fucking job to decide what people should or should not buy if they meet the age requirements yada yada. Wouldn’t a clerk get fired for refusing to sell cigarettes to a smoker or candy bars to a fat person? Why do these fuckheads think they’re the morality police? Go live in Iran, asshole!! God, I hate people who think they have a right to interfere with other people’s sex lives and LEGAL choices.
January 17th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
I mentioned that it doesn’t cause an abortion because I don’t want to hear that “THOU SHALT NOT KILL!” bullshit as an argument for what these imbeciles are doing. I’m so sick of hearing why they should be allowed to dictate my reproductive health - to further populate an already over populated world - and not hearing how they’re really going to make this Earth better.
What really kills me about these pharmacists is that they choose do this job. Theychoose to dispense these medications. They choose to defer to the patient/doctor relationship and follow the directive of that relationship. So why don’t they choose another line of work?
Makes me think that these fundies are intentionally going into this line of work so they can battle us mean, ol’ bitchy feminists where it hurts us the most, when we’re most vulnerable. And it’s almost like they’ve found a way to fly in under the radar. Bastards.
January 17th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
And one of the things that pisses me off most about all this is you have some liberals defending these fuckheads because GOD FORBID anyone get fired by THE MAN for any reason whatsoever.
January 17th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
That’s true. I’m a liberal, gods know, but some of my views would get my card revoked.:) Thing is I have this really strange idea that if you get hired to do a job then you do the damned job. If you have a hard time doing the job for whatever reason then step the fuck down. If you’ve taken the job, refuse to perform the duties, and cause me (the boss) to lose customers then you’re fired for incompetency. Period. Because of my personal beliefs I wouldn’t work at a chicken factory, for instance, because I couldn’t kill the chickens. So, I choose not to work there. Not a difficult choice, really.
You bring up an interesting point, though. My brethren in political ideology will scream pro-choice and women’s reproductive health rights (that’s what I like to call it to people who would hamper mine) but they can’t back that up in other areas. I don’t think they’ll try to help these guys keep their jobs, but, on another note, if a PETA member were to work at the above chicken factory and steal chickens they’d be called heroes for speaking up for the “voiceless”- disregarding the fact that my hypothetical activist doesn’t have to work at that factory and would in fact be breaking the law.
January 17th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Also, I wonder if these guys have the same kind of problem dispensing Viagra to single men. Wouldn’t this go against their moral code? And condoms in the aisle? Have they sabotaged those? Better get rid of that KY, too, because the gays might be using that and God certainly wouldn’t want that….
Sorry, went on a little bit of a rant there.
January 18th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Ok, so here we are living in a country where cities are overrun with foster care children and orphans.
Every Wednesday I am reduced to tears because I have to watch Wednesday’s Child on the news….beautiful children plastered on the telly for hopes of adoption.
It is sad…everyone wants to preserve life, but no one wants to help shape it.
Wasn’t it in the Bible where it was said, Mark 10:14 Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God? I mean, if you want to take in the words of God/Jesus/The Bible…it states, “judge ye not, lest I be the JUDGE”…and that means, in my feeble malnourished mind, that whatever any one person does, he shall be held accountable by GOD not man, so if abortion is a sin, then that person who commits that sin, will one day have to own up to it.
Why birth children into families when that child is unwanted? Child abuse is rampant, and I betcha if that couple who the pharmacist denied to sale to would have placed that child in his arms after its birth, his ass would have HAULED ass.
I say, you speak it, you believe it, OWN up to it. So is he willing to play parent? I think not.
It is one thing to preach God’s word, but it is another to try and BE God. let us each own up to our own and face whatever consequences when the day comes.
We were given free will for a reason.
January 18th, 2007 at 1:17 am
I’ve asked fundies why the don’t adopt or work in the foster care system or something like that but usually get no response. Of course, the men are taught that they are superior and child rearing is a woman’s duty, so that’s why they don’t want us stopping that shit up.
By the way, I know they learn this because I tried to be a good DIL and go to church with Millie and Fil because of all the stuff they do for us. They go to one of those churches with 3,000+ members. I figured I could just grin and bear it, right? If it made them feel better. Well, I couldn’t. The bullshit that was preached made my head spin. I had to get up and leave because I was afraid I was going to lose it. And then, to make it even funnier, Millie bought me a book from their bookstore on “A Wife’s Handbook to Keeping her Husband Happy” or some damned thing. I read it and nearly choked to death on what was in that shit. Lucky for me it was très short or I may have hung myself.
January 18th, 2007 at 11:14 am
We just received a correspondence from Planned Parenthood asking us to sign a petition that will be sent to the likes of Target, Safeway and some other pharmacies asking them to make clear their policies on filling prescriptions for birth control and other reproductive-based medications. This was the result of a pharmacist at a Target somewhere refusing to fill a woman’s birth control prescription. Incidentally, the letter said that Wal-Mart just recently changed some things or clarified some things in their policy that gave them PP’s seal of approval.
January 18th, 2007 at 11:39 am
I’ll be interested to see that. I know that Target was a boycott list because they insisted their pharmacists could refuse to dispense for moral/religious reasons and they were sticking by that decision. Ridiculous.
Unfortunately, in this area, PP isn’t very popular. There isn’t even one in the county I live in. Most people around here think they only do abortions on underage girls (no lie), so I don’t think that a petition of that sort would make a difference in communities that see no problem limiting a woman’s reproductive health freedoms.