{"id":14488,"date":"2007-06-01T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=14488"},"modified":"2023-01-23T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T22:23:09","slug":"pharmacists-and-the-social-contract-conscientious-objection-and-emergency-contraception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=14488","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacists and the Social Contract (Conscientious Objection and Emergency Contraception)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kenneth A Richman<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"171\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/amjbioethics.jpg\" alt=\"The American Journal of Bioethics\" class=\"wp-image-11196\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The American Journal of Bioethics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br> . . .pharmacists in the news who claim that emergency contraception causes abortion are acting impermissibly by basing their conscientious objection on false claims. . .  My main point here, however, is drawn from a familiar concept of political philosophy \u2014 the idea of a social contract. . . Pharmacists benefit from a monopoly on the right to dispense prescription medications. This monopoly, like those offered to public utilities, comes with responsibilities that go beyond the usual duties of professionalism. Pharmacists have a duty to conform to the system which has invested in them and in which they have a vested interest. . .Card (2007) argues that the prima facie right to conscientious objection is defeated by the facts of this particular case.  Applying the argument of the <em>Crito<\/em> to the role of pharmacists in the United States leads us to conclude that this <em>prima facie<\/em> right is defeated for the pharmacist in the professional role in all cases. What remains are the right to work for change and the right to opt out of the professional role entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Richman KA. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/15265160701347247?journalCode=uajb20\">Pharmacists and the Social Contract<\/a>. Am  J Bioethics 2007 Jun 01, 7:6,15-16,DOI: 10.1080\/15265160701347247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth A Richman Extract . . .pharmacists in the news who claim that emergency contraception causes abortion are acting impermissibly by basing their conscientious objection on false claims. . . My main point here, however, is drawn from a familiar concept of political philosophy \u2014 the idea of a social contract. . . 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