Change the Guidelines for Refusing Prescriptions and Refills!
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-guidelines-refusing-prescriptions-and-refills
Right now, pharmacists are able to deny valid prescriptions for any reason they see fit. This negatively impacts many citizens, including, but not limited to, women seeking birth control or emergency contraception, women seeking fertility medication, and transgender people seeking hormones.
This needs to change. I think it imperative to restrict their power of refusal to true medical reasons. Denying a person treatment based on your own beliefs and opinions is abhorrent, and should not be allowed. Therefore, I suggest a system of communication in which a pharmacist must submit a document outlining the reason for refusal to both the prescribing doctor and their employer. The reason for refusal MUST be a true medical reason, lest they be subject to fines and stripping of their license.
Filed under: General Problems
Discrimination based on religious bias is alive and well in the United States. As far as I’m concerned if a doctor, pharmacist, or even a cake decorator refuses service to anyone based on their religion, skin color or ethnicity, sexual preference, age or medical issues then they are guilty of a hate crime against and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. This also puts these people into the same group as the KKK and the Nazi party. Yeah, these people are supposed to be good Christian people but they are nothing but self-serving ASSHOLES with an imaginary cause. Maybe these should be the unwanted people deported to anywhere but here.
It’s people like these that are creating all the hate in our country.
I totally agree with you 100% ..But at my pharmacy they just say NO STOCK sorry and walk away. So you don’t even know the truth. That way even if there was a form it wouldn’t mean squat!