Walmart refuses to fill scrip for miscarriage patient

[Luddly Neddite]

Georgia Walmart Refuses to Fill Prescription for Miscarriage Patient

State law allows pharmacists to refuse a prescription if they feel it violates their personal beliefs.

By Zaid Jilani / AlterNet

April 14, 2015

In Milledgeville, Georgia, Brittany Cartrett recently was informed by her doctor of something no expecting mother wanted to hear: she had miscarried early in her pregnancy, about four or five weeks in. Her doctor called a Walmart in Milledgeville asking that it provide Cartrett with a medication that would help her pass naturally.

The problem is, the Walmart refused to offer the prescription. “So we found another place to fill it but I still had to go up there to get another prescription so when I went up there she asked if I had any questions about this prescription. I said no, I don't, but I do have a question about the other one. And she looks at my name and she says, oh, well...I couldn't think of a valid reason why you would need this prescription,” said Cartrett.

The drug is Misoprostol, which can be used to induce an abortion (though it was not being used for that in this case).

Georgia law has for the past 15 years allowed pharmacists to refuse to prescribe certain drugs if they feel it violates their personal beliefs.



So now, treating illness against personal beliefs?

WTH do these people think they are to go against the patient's doctor's orders? http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-po...refuses-fill-prescription-miscarriage-patient

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Pharmacist should be fired. This wasn't Wal-Mart proper but an individual. If the individual has a problem, find an employer who shares it. Otherwise, fill the Rx.

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

Georgia Walmart Refuses to Fill Prescription for Miscarriage Patient

State law allows pharmacists to refuse a prescription if they feel it violates their personal beliefs.

By Zaid Jilani / AlterNet

April 14, 2015

In Milledgeville, Georgia, Brittany Cartrett recently was informed by her doctor of something no expecting mother wanted to hear: she had miscarried early in her pregnancy, about four or five weeks in. Her doctor called a Walmart in Milledgeville asking that it provide Cartrett with a medication that would help her pass naturally.

The problem is, the Walmart refused to offer the prescription. “So we found another place to fill it but I still had to go up there to get another prescription so when I went up there she asked if I had any questions about this prescription. I said no, I don't, but I do have a question about the other one. And she looks at my name and she says, oh, well...I couldn't think of a valid reason why you would need this prescription,” said Cartrett.

The drug is Misoprostol, which can be used to induce an abortion (though it was not being used for that in this case).

Georgia law has for the past 15 years allowed pharmacists to refuse to prescribe certain drugs if they feel it violates their personal beliefs.



So now, treating illness against personal beliefs?

WTH do these people think they are to go against the patient's doctor's orders?

I agree with the pharmacist who did the right thing. My personal relationship with God comes first and should not be interfered with in the work place

 

[Stephanie]

Well, I think all you clowns should go and protest them. You know so can FORCE to do what you want

 

[Camp]

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

Pharmacist should be fired. This wasn't Wal-Mart proper but an individual. If the individual has a problem, find an employer who shares it. Otherwise, fill the Rx.

No, the pharmacist should not be fired. God comes first.

 

[WinterBorn]

Pharmacists have always had the ability to refuse to fill a prescription. They may not have that ability for religious reasons, but a pharmacist can always go against the doctor's orders. In fact, they are as responsible as the doctor if the prescription is inappropriate for the problem.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Pharmacist should be fired. This wasn't Wal-Mart proper but an individual. If the individual has a problem, find an employer who shares it. Otherwise, fill the Rx.

No, the pharmacist should not be fired. God comes first.

If we put God first, humanity would go extinct. God doesn't benefit by putting Him first if he has no worshippers left because everybody died or was killed off. Worshippers have always come first. Why every religious commandment may be set aside when the life of the worshipper is put in risk by following it.

 

[WinterBorn]

Pharmacist should be fired. This wasn't Wal-Mart proper but an individual. If the individual has a problem, find an employer who shares it. Otherwise, fill the Rx.

No, the pharmacist should not be fired. God comes first.

I guess God only comes first if he keeps his job?

And weren't you one of the ones throwing a fit about muslim cab drivers not transporting people who had alcohol with them or their seeing-eye dogs? Those are both against their religion.

 

[GHook93]

Georgia Walmart Refuses to Fill Prescription for Miscarriage Patient

State law allows pharmacists to refuse a prescription if they feel it violates their personal beliefs.

By Zaid Jilani / AlterNet

April 14, 2015

In Milledgeville, Georgia, Brittany Cartrett recently was informed by her doctor of something no expecting mother wanted to hear: she had miscarried early in her pregnancy, about four or five weeks in. Her doctor called a Walmart in Milledgeville asking that it provide Cartrett with a medication that would help her pass naturally.

The problem is, the Walmart refused to offer the prescription. “So we found another place to fill it but I still had to go up there to get another prescription so when I went up there she asked if I had any questions about this prescription. I said no, I don't, but I do have a question about the other one. And she looks at my name and she says, oh, well...I couldn't think of a valid reason why you would need this prescription,” said Cartrett.

The drug is Misoprostol, which can be used to induce an abortion (though it was not being used for that in this case).

Georgia law has for the past 15 years allowed pharmacists to refuse to prescribe certain drugs if they feel it violates their personal beliefs.



So now, treating illness against personal beliefs?

WTH do these people think they are to go against the patient's doctor's orders?

Congrats Nutmeg, you got a legitimate grip! This law is bullshit. If the business carries the drug, then a pharmacist should have to fill it, regardless of his self-righteous beliefs!

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Pharmacist should be fired. This wasn't Wal-Mart proper but an individual. If the individual has a problem, find an employer who shares it. Otherwise, fill the Rx.

No, the pharmacist should not be fired. God comes first.

I guess God only comes first if he keeps his job?

And weren't you one of the ones throwing a fit about muslim cab drivers not transporting people who had alcohol with them or their seeing-eye dogs? Those are both against their religion.

What's Islam's problem with seeing-eye dogs? That's a new one to me.

 

[WinterBorn]

Pharmacist should be fired. This wasn't Wal-Mart proper but an individual. If the individual has a problem, find an employer who shares it. Otherwise, fill the Rx.

No, the pharmacist should not be fired. God comes first.

I guess God only comes first if he keeps his job?

And weren't you one of the ones throwing a fit about muslim cab drivers not transporting people who had alcohol with them or their seeing-eye dogs? Those are both against their religion.

What's Islam's problem with seeing-eye dogs? That's a new one to me.

Dogs are considered "unclean". So the muslim cabbies don't want to transport them in their cabs. Or at least a group of them didn't.

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

Pharmacist should be fired. This wasn't Wal-Mart proper but an individual. If the individual has a problem, find an employer who shares it. Otherwise, fill the Rx.

No, the pharmacist should not be fired. God comes first.

I guess God only comes first if he keeps his job?

And weren't you one of the ones throwing a fit about muslim cab drivers not transporting people who had alcohol with them or their seeing-eye dogs? Those are both against their religion.

What's Islam's problem with seeing-eye dogs? That's a new one to me.

Dogs are considered "unclean". So the muslim cabbies don't want to transport them in their cabs. Or at least a group of them didn't.

Actually it is Muslims who are unclean.

 

[2aguy]

Pharmacist should be fired. This wasn't Wal-Mart proper but an individual. If the individual has a problem, find an employer who shares it. Otherwise, fill the Rx.

No, the pharmacist should not be fired. God comes first.

If we put God first, humanity would go extinct. God doesn't benefit by putting Him first if he has no worshippers left because everybody died or was killed off. Worshippers have always come first. Why every religious commandment may be set aside when the life of the worshipper is put in risk by following it.

actually no.....just the other day Dennis Prager addressed the murder question...you are not allowed to murder an innocent to save your own life........

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Pharmacist should be fired. This wasn't Wal-Mart proper but an individual. If the individual has a problem, find an employer who shares it. Otherwise, fill the Rx.

No, the pharmacist should not be fired. God comes first.

I guess God only comes first if he keeps his job?

And weren't you one of the ones throwing a fit about muslim cab drivers not transporting people who had alcohol with them or their seeing-eye dogs? Those are both against their religion.

What's Islam's problem with seeing-eye dogs? That's a new one to me.

Dogs are considered "unclean". So the muslim cabbies don't want to transport them in their cabs. Or at least a group of them didn't.

So? So are menstruating women, they ask each woman if she's menstruating?

 

[WinterBorn]

Pharmacist should be fired. This wasn't Wal-Mart proper but an individual. If the individual has a problem, find an employer who shares it. Otherwise, fill the Rx.

No, the pharmacist should not be fired. God comes first.

I guess God only comes first if he keeps his job?

And weren't you one of the ones throwing a fit about muslim cab drivers not transporting people who had alcohol with them or their seeing-eye dogs? Those are both against their religion.

What's Islam's problem with seeing-eye dogs? That's a new one to me.

Dogs are considered "unclean". So the muslim cabbies don't want to transport them in their cabs. Or at least a group of them didn't.

Actually it is Muslims who are unclean.

So your idea that "God comes first and businesses should accept that" only applies when it is a God you follow?

 

[Camp]

Pharmacist should be fired. This wasn't Wal-Mart proper but an individual. If the individual has a problem, find an employer who shares it. Otherwise, fill the Rx.

No, the pharmacist should not be fired. God comes first.

Why would God want a dead pre embryo or zygote to decompose and rot inside a women? The Doctor prescribed the medication to evacuate the dead remains. Are Christians now going to demand rights to force women to carry deat zygotes and fetus's inside of them until the practice causes the women to die from the complications?

 

[WinterBorn]

Pharmacist should be fired. This wasn't Wal-Mart proper but an individual. If the individual has a problem, find an employer who shares it. Otherwise, fill the Rx.

No, the pharmacist should not be fired. God comes first.

Why would God want a dead pre embryo or zygote to decompose and rot inside a women? The Doctor prescribed the medication to evacuate the dead remains. Are Christians now going to demand rights to force women to carry deat zygotes and fetus's inside of them until the practice causes the women to die from the complications?

Good question. Why would the pharmacist refuse to fill the prescription?

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Pharmacist should be fired. This wasn't Wal-Mart proper but an individual. If the individual has a problem, find an employer who shares it. Otherwise, fill the Rx.

No, the pharmacist should not be fired. God comes first.

Why would God want a dead pre embryo or zygote to decompose and rot inside a women? The Doctor prescribed the medication to evacuate the dead remains. Are Christians now going to demand rights to force women to carry deat zygotes and fetus's inside of them until the practice causes the women to die from the complications?

Good question. Why would the pharmacist refuse to fill the prescription?

Conceivably, out of concern "the woman's already miscarried" becomes an excuse used to cause a miscarriage when one hadn't yet occured.

 

[Camp]

Pharmacist should be fired. This wasn't Wal-Mart proper but an individual. If the individual has a problem, find an employer who shares it. Otherwise, fill the Rx.

No, the pharmacist should not be fired. God comes first.

Why would God want a dead pre embryo or zygote to decompose and rot inside a women? The Doctor prescribed the medication to evacuate the dead remains. Are Christians now going to demand rights to force women to carry deat zygotes and fetus's inside of them until the practice causes the women to die from the complications?

Good question. Why would the pharmacist refuse to fill the prescription?

Fair assumption is that she suspected the medication was going to be used for an abortion. So the question will be what position does Walmart take. This could open a big ass can of worms.