Virginia Defeats Bill Targeting New Pro-Life Catholic Pharmacy

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Richmond, VA – The Virginia legislature has pulled a bill specifically targeting a pro-life Catholic pharmacy that refuses to carry any drugs that can cause abortions. Last summer, the Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy (DMC) opened in Chantilly, Virginia and abortion advocates have been upset it won’t sell birth control or the Plan B pill.

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juliee said:
… abortion advocates have been upset it won’t sell birth control or the Plan B pill.
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This is the sort of thing that realy burns me about the pro-choice to kill unborn children lobby. They harp on about personal freedom and choice yet they want to force their baby killin’ beleifs on others, including those in the medical profession.

What I really want to say about and to them would be censored from this forum! (and I’d certainly need to be heading off to confession if I even thought it).
 
Its good that it happened that way…

But I can’t see that it would have happened any other way.

Just because “A” doesn’t like what “B” carries in their inventory is not an issue to be decided by anyone other than the owner of “B”.

A business owner “cannot” be compelled to carry any item in inventory that they do not choose to. I believe that kind of “requirement” imposed on someone or a private business would be in violation of any number of laws and rules…such as the Interstate Commerce Rules, and any law setting a precedent that causes such a thing to happen would have wide ranging effects throughout the business world. For instance…Chevy dealers could have to carry Rolls Royce parts…sounds silly, but it would be a reality.

I think the VA Lawmakers got a “heads-up” from their legal department, and maybe some Pro-Life people presented some petitions with names on them not only listing voters but the names of who would potentially replace the incumbents…

There is more than one way to skin a cat, and creativity wins the day…
 
I hope these pharmacies realize that 40% of women on the pill take it for reasons other than birth control.
 
taylorc said:
I hope these pharmacies realize that 40% of women on the pill take it for reasons other than birth control.
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Can you back that up with some citations? And do these statistics account for women who invent excuses to get the pill?

And so what if they do, if they are on the pill and having sex, there is always the possibility that conception may occur and the pill would cause a spontaneous abortion. So even if what you said was true, which is beyond unlikely, it still would not make any difference whatsoever.
 
rpp said:
Can you back that up with some citations? And do these statistics account for women who invent excuses to get the pill?

And so what if they do, if they are on the pill and having sex, there is always the possibility that conception may occur and the pill would cause a spontaneous abortion. So even if what you said was true, which is beyond unlikely, it still would not make any difference whatsoever.
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It’s a pretty well known fact that many women are on the pill for medical reasons. The 40% was from prevention magazine. This does not go against church teaching. Many of us are not having sex. Married women who take it for non-contraceptive reasons are not required to abstain according to church teaching. As far as the chance of it causing a miscarriage, certain cancer drugs can cause miscarriages also. It doesn’t seem this pharmacy is refusing to prescribe those drugs.
 
taylorc said:
It’s a pretty well known fact that many women are on the pill for medical reasons. The 40% was from prevention magazine. This does not go against church teaching. Many of us are not having sex. Married women who take it for non-contraceptive reasons are not required to abstain according to church teaching. As far as the chance of it causing a miscarriage, certain cancer drugs can cause miscarriages also. It doesn’t seem this pharmacy is refusing to prescribe those drugs.
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Thank you for failing to either make or prove your point.
 
rpp said:
Thank you for failing to either make or prove your point.
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You do a good job at avoiding thinking or responding logically . Just because you can’t comprehend something doesn’t it make it any less true. I’ll stop bothering you with facts or logic. You’ll just respond with simplistic one liners that have nothing to do with the point at hand.
 
taylorc said:
I hope these pharmacies realize that 40% of women on the pill take it for reasons other than birth control.
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Many of these women take it for both reasons.

As a young, single woman with health problems, I had doctors throwing the pill at me right and left. They would tell me to take it “because you’re unmarried, and you’re gonna need it anyway”. :mad:

Doctors look at the pill as the quick fix for women with any sort of health problem in this area. It took me over 10 years to find a doctor who actually wanted to treat me, instead of masking the symptoms with the pill.

But I have dozens of friends who are taking the pill for “medical” reasons…AND using it as birth control. It just depends on how you look at it. 🤷

(Not that I’m always against using the pill for medical treatment; if my symptoms were worse, I probably would have used it. But it’s rarely the best or most effective treatment for these sorts of problems.)
 
TraderTif said:
Many of these women take it for both reasons.

As a young, single woman with health problems, I had doctors throwing the pill at me right and left. They would tell me to take it “because you’re unmarried, and you’re gonna need it anyway”. :mad:

Doctors look at the pill as the quick fix for women with any sort of health problem in this area. It took me over 10 years to find a doctor who actually wanted to treat me, instead of masking the symptoms with the pill.

But I have dozens of friends who are taking the pill for “medical” reasons…AND using it as birth control. It just depends on how you look at it. 🤷

(Not that I’m always against using the pill for medical treatment; if my symptoms were worse, I probably would have used it. But it’s rarely the best or most effective treatment for these sorts of problems.)
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Some women do use it for both, but a pharmacist can’t assume all do. I have to take Yaz because it is very low estrogen. so it stops the growth of my endometriosis. There are other treatments for it, but these involve surgery and hormones with a lot of side effects.
 
1ke said:
Which, whether true or not, has nothing to do with anything.
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According to the Church it does. Taking BCPs for medical reasons is morally licit. These pharmacists who refuse to sell the pill are like stores that refuse to sell rope thinking it’s sole purpose is to make nooses!
 
taylorc said:
According to the Church it does. Taking BCPs for medical reasons is morally licit. These pharmacists who refuse to sell the pill are like stores that refuse to sell rope thinking it’s sole purpose is to make nooses!
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It is their right to maintain a 100% pro-life, anti-contraception product line at their pharmacy and not carry those products. The purpose of the pill is contraception. The fact that your doctor prescribes the birth control pill for an off-label use is not the pharmacy’s problem.

Our local Wal-Mart doesn’t carry everything I want to buy, and I often have to order things off the internet. I asked Wal-Mart to special order a particular brand of yogurt and you know what they said? We don’t carry that. We don’t special order. Sorry. Go somewhere else.

Moral of the story: It doesn’t matter what *you *want to use product X for. The pharmacy has a right to determine which products they will carry.
 
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