Judge Upholds Sanctions Against No-Pill Pharmacist

[MountainLaurel]

A Barron County judge has upheld sanctions against a pharmacist who wouldn't dispense birth control pills or transfer the prescription elsewhere.

Barron County Circuit Judge James Babler last week affirmed the punishment the state Pharmacy Examining Board handed down against pharmacist Neil Noesen.

He refused to refill a college student's birth control pills or transfer her prescription when she walked into the Menomonie K-mart where he was filling in as a substitute pharmacist in 2002. He said he didn't want to commit a sin.

The board ruled last April that Noesen failed to carry out his responsibility to get the prescription to someone else if he wouldn't fill it himself.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=3886320

I think I want to send Judge Babler a bouquet of flowers. :applause: :applause:

Also, to those who keep screaming about how the fundies aren't targeting contraception, please note that this case did not involve the morning-after pill, or the chemical abortion, but plain ol' birth control.

[sui generis]

1. Holey Moley!

Vegetarians shouldn't get jobs serving hamburgers either. A pharmacist's role to safely support the physician's diagnosis and prescription. This is like your shoes deciding they have a moral problem with walking.

DISCLAIMER: apologies to all "good" pharmacists, you know what I mean.

[rurallib]

2. And temperance supporters would be bad bartenders

If you can no longer do the job for some reason - such as a sudden case of misplaced morality - it may be time to move to that construction job.
Maybe misplaced morality should be a new course in the pharmaceutical schools. Maybe, too, they could go over some of the really bad side effects of drugs like Prozac and pharmacists and doctors will quit handing them out like candy.

[HereSince1628]

3. Isn't Barron Co. considered part of Wisconsin's "red" boonies?

Just thinking about what it's like to make that decision in that sort of community.

Go Judge Babler!

[Warpy]

4. If you can't do your job, you need to go out the door.

There is no place in health care for religiously arrogant pharmacists who think they can second guess any physician when it comes to dispensing a legal prescription when there are no drug interactions or allergies to consider.

Any health care provider who is too pious to do his or her job needs to explore career opportunities within that field that do not bring him or her into contact with patients.

That's just how it is, and no turfing that prescription off to another pharmy or worse, to another drug store.

Any pharmacist who refuses to fill a legal prescription on the basis of religious fastidiousness is violating the state pharmacist practice act. Report him or her. Get that person fired and away from patients who need help.

[Kerrytravelers]

5. When I was a teen, I took the pill to regulate my periods.

I guess it was a sin to have a period, because, for all this pharmacist knows, the patient was taking the pills for acne, periods or not to get pregnant... unless he asked her... but then, it's none of his business.

I just love the "moral fundies." :eyes:

[MountainLaurel]

6. I wonder if they do ask

Or if it doesn't matter to them WHY the pills are being taken.