I thought of a good analogy re pharmacists and birth control

[TrogL]

A local businessman is making a good living cleaning septic tanks. It's a dirty business but somebody has to do it. His business has expanded to the point where he has to hire more help. Upon taking the job, one person begins to objectly loudly that he cannot be anywheres near the output of bodily functions. Let's say it all together...

WHAT DID YOU FUCKING EXPECT!?!!??

If you don't want to do ALL of the core part of your job, go work at a convenience store.

(prompted by http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/ Feb 27th article, 2nd paragraph)

[TheDebbieDee]

1. Jehovah's Witnesses frown on blood transfusions..........

But you never hear about them getting jobs at bloodbanks, then telling management that they shouldn't collect donations.

These pharmacists/medical personnel that feel as though they are going against their religious consciences by filling/administering meds should just find other jobs!

[customerserviceguy]

6. They will

and we will read stories about small towns where the local pharmacy closed up shop, and all the residents of the town have to drive an hour to the nearest Wal-Mart in the big city.

Anybody expecting the residents of those towns to blame the pharmacists more than they blame President Obama is deluding themselves. Small town folks tend to respect other people's rights to conduct business as they see fit, even if they disagree.

[ogneopasno]

2. I was heavily recruited by the Marines out of high school. I tested extremely well, am excellent

with foreign languages and wanted to get to the language school at Monterey. I think the military would have been good for me. However, I'm not going to kill people as part of my job. So I didn't join. I thought it through and knew I would not be able to do that part of the job. So I didn't do any of it, and found other ways to work in what I was good at. The end.

[napi21]

3. That same analagy can be applied to any job.

I would have loved to make the $$ the iron workers were making working in the blast furnace, but I couldn't have stood the heat!

My son likes to stay clean and has always been spectacular at math, but decided not to persue a job as an accountant or an engineer because he can't stand sitting at a desk...he likes to work with his hands.

Construction workers at least used to make great money, but you have to be ok with working outside in most weather conditions!

I agree with you with the pharmacist. I can understand some procedures some doctors would refuse to do, like abortions, in vitro, or assisten suicide, but there are lots of other doctors who will perform those procedures. A pharmicist is putting pills in a bottle! They AREN'T treating a patient!!!! If they are so opposed to some of those pills being put in a bottle, they really should chose a different career!

[midnight]

4. Good analogy. That is the same reasoning why I'm not in the medical

profession. I faint at the sight of gross.

[customerserviceguy]

5. Ok, here's where you're wrong

If you're going to take a job with a septic tank cleaning company, you have to expect that you will frequently be around shit.

What proportion of the drugs in a pharmacy are abortifacients? Probably far less than 1%. And when you took that job 20 years ago, there weren't any drugs sold there for that purpose.

[SoCalDem]

7. Bottom line..

If your RELIGIOUS beliefs are in the forefront of your everyday life, and if they set a particular path for you, then you should seek employment in the religious field, with businesses within your religious environment.

By LEAVING your religious coccoon, you are ACCEPTING the norms of the secular/group world, and YOUR individual beliefs do NOT trump normal business practices.

EVERY job application should have a disclaimer on it that states a version of that, and once signed, the employee could be terminated easily for not honoring a document that they signed in agreeement.

If "certain" drugs/medicines/treatments "violate" your personal beliefs, don't get a job in a pharmacy or become a pharmacist..

If you are allergic to animals, don't become a vet..

If you cannot stand childten, don;t become an elementary school teacher..

If you hate arguing, don't become a lawyer

If you have vertigo, don't become a house-painter or a roofer.

EVERY job is not necessarily "available" to EVERY person..