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#1249792
Ken
I wonder what that pharmacist would do if a woman came to him with a perferrated uterus. Bleeding to death is Pro-life!
1/28/2011 5:07:56 AM
#1249797
Nathan
"A new Idaho law enacted in 2010 is designed to protect medical professionals by allowing them to refuse health care services that conflict with their religious, moral or ethical principles."
This alone is a WTF-worthy.
1/28/2011 5:22:30 AM
#1249801
Mister Spak
A conservative death panel in action.
1/28/2011 5:28:02 AM
#1249802
Percy Q. Shunn
Idaho! Proudly marching into the Thirteenth Century!
1/28/2011 5:28:18 AM
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1/28/2011 5:30:33 AM
#1249809
Tolpuddle Martyr
Of course negligence leading to death by bleeding is a pro-LIFE position!
1/28/2011 5:33:38 AM
#1249813
Cid Highwind
So, if I was a doctor and it would be against my religion to help anyone who's not sharing said religion, I could just refuse to help fundies, according to this new law? Did they consider that when they passed that thing?
1/28/2011 5:43:20 AM
#1249818
shykid
Wasn't there just a post about "liberal death panels"?
Oh, the irony.
1/28/2011 5:48:48 AM
#1249819
Doctor Whom
Where I live, we have an awful lot of Muslim medical professionals. Just sayin'.
1/28/2011 5:49:50 AM
#1249821
Gimpo Pop Eyes
The point is, Fundie God has decreed that the alleviation of suffering is not as important as the upholding of one of His whims. Now we all know that Fundie God is totally nuts, so it stands to reason that the actions of His earthly puppets are, correspondingly, totally nuts as well. In fact, Fundie God is also so paranoid that He refuses to show Himself. No wonder they call Him the Invisible Mad Twat, Lord of Insanity, Cloud King of Drooling Morons and Chief Magic Sky Pixie of Violent Maniacs. We should obey every inaudible command He utters (inaudible to everyone except His special interpreters, often bearded madmen), and bow to His invisible, vaporous self.
Remember, God's stupid whims trump all. No one knows why, they're not supposed to know because it's all lunacy anyway. Probably because some beardy wrote it in the Bible.
1/28/2011 5:50:27 AM
#1249825
nutbunny
Well, let's hope an important female relative of this pharmacist is in a life or death situation, but also on her period, and the only doctors available are jewish
1/28/2011 5:54:27 AM
#1249826
Canadiest
Doesn't surprize me at all. In the battle against evolution it seems pharmacists/chemists are the creationists sides highest trained professionals.
Also, as a pharmacist you are professionally all up in everyones business which appeals to Fundies. Remember the onset of the Morning After pill? Large groups of pharmacists refused to stock it because of their strong religious convictions.
1/28/2011 5:57:28 AM
#1249847
Anarkist78
Comming from Idaho I'm surprised it wasn't a race thing. So I guess this is progress.
This sounds like something X-tians would pass.
Basically this law says "Well, you couldn't possibly have known you were violating my faith but I'm gonna punish you for it anyway because inflicting suffering and death is how I get off."
1/28/2011 6:24:37 AM
#1249849
KR
Hopefully the pharmacist got sued.
1/28/2011 6:25:41 AM
#1249851
Amanda
What an idiot. I hope she gets replaced by someone willing to do their job. Save your opinions for when you're off the job, lady.
I missed the first line somehow when I read the post. WTF Idaho???
1/28/2011 6:29:03 AM
#1249859
TGRwulf
Wow, that is fucked up. I don't even know what else to say to that...
1/28/2011 6:45:50 AM
#1249865
Canadia
Forget the pharmacist, what the fuck is up with that law?
1/28/2011 6:56:50 AM
#1249879
Mister Spak
KR and Amanda:
The point of the law is to prevent the pharmacist from being replaced or sued. Fundies didn't want dead patients from getting in the way of imposing their religion on everyone else.
1/28/2011 7:13:17 AM
#1249881
nazani14
Another example of religion endangering life is refusal to fill birth control prescriptions. Many women suffer from menorrhagia, which rapidly causes severe anemia- thus making the woman weak and susceptible to a wide range of health problems. There are politicians who want to allow pharmacists to deny women BC prescriptions, such as Tom Emmer. Target/Best Buy contributed to his campaign- and that, boys and girls, is why I no longer shop at these places.
1/28/2011 7:17:13 AM
#1249887
kuribo
As a nursing professional myself:
What the fuck happened to "First do no harm?"
You're a disgrace to Florence Nightingale. Keep your goddamn politics and religious belief out of other peoples' care.
1/28/2011 7:24:44 AM
#1249903
BlackMageJ
Hey guys, I've discovered a cheap, clean source of infinitely renewable energy!
All we need to do is attach these magnets to the corpse of Hippocrates, and they'll generate electricity as he spins in his grave
1/28/2011 7:50:31 AM
#1249904
Zeus Almighty
Yay, sane medical professionals are not required to give snake antivenom to those "Deliverance"-style fundies who play with rattlesnakes.
1/28/2011 7:50:37 AM
#1249908
Musicalbookworm
Um, excuse me, doesn't the WOMAN have a right to life?
1/28/2011 7:56:15 AM
#1249915
Anon-e-moose
"The pharmacist said, 'Well, if you're not going to tell me that and she had an abortion, I'm not going to fill this prescription.' And then our practitioner said, 'Why don't you tell me another pharmacy that I can call or another pharmacist that can dispense this medication for my patient?' And the pharmacist hung up on her," said Kristen Glundberg-Prosser of the Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest.
Planned Parenthood called the pharmacist's actions dangerous."
I smell a medical malpractice suit in the offing.
Never mind the bleeding suffered by that poor woman, that thrice-damned pharmacist is going to look like the metaphorical equivalent of a victim in the "Saw" or "Hostel" films, when the ambulance-chaser lawyers are done with this person.
Some people seem to forget the US's most litigious society status. Oh well, that pharmacist's loss (financially; and destroyed career), that lawyer & his/her client's gain.
Three Words: Hippocratic Oath, bitch.
@Mister Spak, shykid
Whenever we get a fundie screaming 'Liberal death panel' blue bloody murder (pun not intended) here in FSTDT, all we have to do is direct them to this particular instance of a right-wing Fundamentalist death panel.
@Doctor Whom
My physician is a Sufi Muslim, and with him having a private practice as a consultant anaesthetist, he's done so at a number of abortions. He sees no conflict with his beliefs, and his profession; the Hippocratic Oath, and all that jazz. His wife is a pharmacist of many years standing - and she's had no problem with dispensing the 'morning after pill' to women - sometimes prescribed to said patients by her husband.
Since moving to the UK from Uganda in the 70s (Idi Amin's purge of Indian/Pakistani citizens, resulting in the 'brain drain' there; their loss, the UK's gain), he's told me that he & his family have never been happier. And that the NHS is the greatest institution of it's kind on the planet.
Fundies in the US, take note.
1/28/2011 8:04:53 AM
#1249920
Swede
If it is against your religion to stop or prevent bleedings, perhaps you shouldn't pursue the medical field. Just a thought.
(I could perhaps agree that she's allowed to pass the task over to her colleague, if she can't stomach to do it. But flat out refuse and hang up; nope, that's not even wrong.)
What if it's against the religion of a fireman to touch a woman during her period? Is he then allowed to just let this pharmacist's body burn to a cinder, if she's trapped on the third floor in a burning building and can't or won't inform him whether she's mensturating or not?
1/28/2011 8:06:26 AM
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