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Culture Critique : Lifeman, Away!
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Fafnir is becoming one of my new favorite bloggers:
The New Adventures of LifeMan!
ZOOM! Up in the sky – is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s LifeMan, protector of all things good and politically expedient!
“Look there, old chum!” says Life Man scannin the world with his super-secret lifemovision! “Down at the ReddiMart – it’s my arch-nemesis, Dr. Prescripto, and he’s endangering the unconceived!”
“This looks like a job for LifeMan!” says me!
“Here you go, children!” cackles the evil Dr. Prescripto. “These are birth control pills… with them you can have rampant promiscuous premarital sex without getting prrrrregnant! MWA-HAHAHAHAHA!”
“Stop right there, Prescripto!” says LifeMan. “Sperm cells may have only half the soul of a fetus, but there’s billions more of them – making your reckless war against unwanted pregnancy a cosmic genocide!”
“Maybe so, LifeMan, but you’re powerless to stop me!” says the evil Dr. Prescripto twirlin his mustache!
“Hardly, villain!” says LifeMan blastin the baddie with his zealotzap ray! “I’ve staffed this pharmacy with good, decent people who won’t give your sperm-murdering pills to anyone!”
“Noooo! Foiled again!” says Dr. Prescripto explodin in a puff a smoke.
“Now to take down the threat of Masturbatron – and the nefarious menstruation cycle!” says LifeMan.
“LifeMan, you have to help me!” says a little Muslim boy runnin up to us. “My father is being tortured to death by soldiers who have occupied our country!”
“This looks like a job for LifeMan!” says me!
“It sure does, little friend!” says LifeMan. “Police, please arrest this boy. He may have information vital to national security.”
LIFEMAN! ZOOM!
From the Washington Post: Some pharmacists across the country are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills, saying that dispensing the medications violates their personal moral or religious beliefs.
The trend has opened a new front in the nation's battle over reproductive rights, sparking an intense debate over the competing rights of pharmacists to refuse to participate in something they consider repugnant and a woman's right to get medications her doctor has prescribed. It has also triggered pitched political battles in statehouses across the nation as politicians seek to pass laws either to protect pharmacists from being penalized -- or force them to carry out their duties. How... how can you decide to do a job, even though you believe part of that job is immoral? If you think it's immoral, don't sign up to do the job. You don't get to pick and choose what and what not to do if you work as a pharmacist. Your job is to fill a doctor's prescriptions and give advice. You want to suggest to a person that they shouldn't take birth control? Great! I wouldn't really want to hear it, but at least then you're not robbing them of the medications their doctors prescribe. Sure, they can just go somewhere else, but in my opinion if a pharmacist is going to refuse to give a prescription that the pharmacy keeps on hand, that pharmacist should either be made to do his/her job or fired.
Principles of Practice for Pharmaceutical Care:
"Interaction between the pharmacist and the patient must occur to assure that a relationship based upon caring, trust, open communication, cooperation, and mutual decision making is established and maintained."
Media Matters has more.
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Posted By George on 05/19/2005 @ 03:29 PM | Link and Discuss (0) | More CultureCritique
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