{"id":5101,"date":"2007-07-17T18:59:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T01:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5101"},"modified":"2023-01-23T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T22:21:29","slug":"reconciling-principles-and-prescriptions-do-pharmacist-refusal-clauses-strike-the-appropriate-balance-between-pharmacists-and-patients-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5101","title":{"rendered":"Reconciling principles and prescriptions: Do pharmacist refusal clauses strike the appropriate balance between pharmacists’ and patients’ rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Conclusion:<\/strong> When a woman and her physician decide that a prescription for contraception is in her best health interests, legal, professional, and ethical obligations should prevent a pharmacist from being able to effectively override that determination. The right of a pharmacist to abide by her moral or religious principles when faced with a prescription that goes against those principles is an important right to protect. However, this right should never be allowed to infringe on a patient\u2019s right to access birth control, an equally important right that has significant implications for the majority of American women\u2019s reproductive health. Pharmacist refusal clauses acknowledge pharmacists\u2019 right to refuse at the expense of women\u2019s right to access contraceptives, inappropriately reconciling these rights. Griswold v. Connecticut <\/em>may be forty years old, but the issues debated before the Supreme Court then have risen anew today, this time behind the pharmacy counter. Following in the footsteps of the Griswold<\/em> Court, we must now reaffirm that women have the right to make their own family planning decisions, including the decision to use contraception. Legislatures, pharmacy boards, pharmacies, pharmacists, and patients must work together to put the needs of patients back where they belong\u2014as the first priority of the pharmacy profession. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tomkowiak S. Reconciling principles and prescriptions: Do pharmacist refusal clauses strike the appropriate balance between pharmacists’ and patients’ rights?<\/a> U Illinois L Rev 2007(4) 1329-1360<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Tomkowiak    ExtractConclusion: When a woman and her physician decide that a prescription for contraception is in her best health interests, legal, professional, and ethical obligations should prevent a pharmacist from being able to effectively override that determination. 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