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Dear _______,

Last month, Target ignored 95,000 letters from Planned Parenthood supporters about its bad pharmacist refusal policy, letting all of us know we cannot "expect more" from this discount store than we do from Wal-Mart.

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Karen Pearl
Interim President
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
On behalf of the Planned Parenthood community

I'm not familiar with what Target has been doing. Can you fill me in? Thanks and BTW I'm a newbie, so I apoligize in advance if this is a stupid question.

And some target pharmacists refuse to fill the prescription birth control RU-486 because it 'violates their religious beliefs'.

They've refused to fill emergency contraception and ordinary birth control pills, along with RU-486 (which, by the way, has to be administered with another drug and under a physician's care unless it's being used for one of its other labeled uses.

Since all these meds do have other uses besides what these sanctimonious twits feel violates their piety, they're playing physician without the knowledge base and without examining the patients. In other words, these jerks aren't just refusing to do their jobs, they're putting some patients in real danger.

The state pharmacy boards need to receive enough complaint on these assholes to get off their overpaid asses and act. Any pharmacist who fails to rill a legal prescription for any medication in the absence of a serious allergy or drug interaction is violating the terms of his licensure, and should have that license pulled.

I can't refuse to teach a kid; a cop can't refuse to arrest a criminal; a fireman can't refuse to put out a fire. Professionals do their jobs IN SPITE OF personal opinions or religious convictions. If you don't believe in birth control pills, then don't become a freeking pharmacist.

I heard recently that some Walgreen pharmacists were fired for refusing to fill birth related scrips ( and rightly so) . The article I read said their actions would be OK if it was the company policy. I can't remember if this was state specific, but I think it was. Is it Target's corporate policy or is it by state. Either way, if Target is doing this I suppose they have the right, but others have the right to take them to task. Good job and I look forward to any further info you can provide.

to allow the pharmacists to choose whether or not to fill the scripts. Very few states have laws covering this.

I don't think Target has the right to allow this. Doctors make decisions regarding legal prescriptions. Pharmacists fill them whether they 'approve' or not. That is their job. If they don't believe in filling all legal prescriptions, they should go into another line of work.

I agree. If you are a PETA member, don't work in a chicken factory.

and I apologize for not explaining better.

Target is letting its pharmacists refuse to fill birth control prescriptions. WalMart is doing this too. Planned Parenthood is fighting it.

And welcome to DU :hi:

see my post #5 and let me know what you think.

is that each pharmacist has a choice -- but if they chose not to fill a script, the must make a referral to one who will.

In the case of the firings, there is a law in Illinois that requires it, which over-rides the Walgreen's policy.