Michigan pharmacist refuses medicine to woman having miscarriage

[TexasTowelie]

An Ionia woman is demanding that Meijer discipline a Petoskey pharmacist and implement a company-wide policy for how pharmacists should handle religious and moral objections to dispensing medication after she was denied a prescription to help complete a miscarriage.

Rachel Peterson, 35, alleges a pharmacist at the Meijer store on Lears Road in Petoskey refused to fill her prescription for a drug called misoprostol (brand name Cytotec) in July because of his personal religious views. She says he also refused to transfer the prescription to another pharmacy.

Misoprostol can be used to prevent stomach ulcers and also can be used to induce labor during pregnancy, to aid in the completion of a miscarriage and in the treatment of postpartum hemorrhage. When combined with another drug, it can be used to induce an abortion.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan sent a letter Tuesday on Peterson's behalf to Meijer, saying what the pharmacist did was discriminatory and violated the state's public accommodation laws.

Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/2018/10/17/pharmacist-medicine-miscarriage-religious-objection/1600714002/

[dawg day]

1. I don't believe in God, so I am not a minister

If this guy doesn't believe in providing medication, he shouldn't be a pharmacist.

[sheshe2]

2. Damn them to hell. nt

[KCDebbie]

3. If you can't perform all the duties of your job because of your religious beliefs...

Then you need to find a new job.

And before someone pipes up that the pharmacist has a right to to practice his/her religion, I posit that no where in the Constitution does it say you have the right to be a pharmacist!

[dchill]

4. "...because of HIS personal religious views."

Mansplainin' GOD. Super.

[Afromania]

5. These companies really need to make these asshats file a waiver that they will give any medicine

that the store stocks to whoever has a prescription for it, end of story.

[pansypoo53219]

6. freedom OF religion means EVERBODY DOES NOT HAVE TO BE CATHOLIC!

or talibornagain, SHARIA!!!