What if a cop refuses to address a threat to a pharmacist who refused to fill

[shraby]

a birth control prescription for his daughter or his wife?

[pipoman]

1. what if a cop refused to address a threat to a women's health provider?

Either way the public safety employee should be fired..

[NYC_SKP]

2. If the thread is acted upon, then the cop shares responsibility for criminal/civil acts.

IMHO.

If you're suggesting some form of "cop nullification" in cases of potential bodily harm or criminal acts that result from these threats, then I think the officer becomes a co-conspirator or abettor in the crime.

[immoderate]

3. The cop should not avoid his responsibility any more than a pharmacist.

They both should be fired. At least.


--imm

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. What if the pharmacist owns the pharmacy

Rarer these days, but its still out there.

[immoderate]

5. We could revoke his license.

--imm

[ProgressiveProfessor]

8. That is usually handled by not stocking things like Plan B

They can not dispense what they do not have kind of thing.

The right answer to this is boycotts. Raised public awareness and sends a broad message.

[immoderate]

10. Makes sense.

--imm

[4th law of robotics]

6. Public/private employee

there is a difference.

Not that pharmacists should do this (and if the company they're working for doesn't like it they should absolutely fire those pharmacists), but they aren't the same thing.

[malaise]

7. You raise a profound question

That's why church and state must never mix. A person's individual beliefs cannot violate her/his professional responsibilities to all. These lunatics must be stopped or it is all over for the very notion of society - a term that has actual meaning.

[Mr Dixon]

9. SMH

I thought we already established the police are not here to protect the people, if some pharmacist thinks it’s within his/her right to deny people, and then if he gets his ass kicked that is on him/her.