[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: AMA Attacks Pro-Life Pharmacists
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17 June 2008
CONTACT: Katie Walker
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*AMA ATTACKS PRO-LIFE PHARMACIES*
*Washington, DC (17 June 2008)* -- The American Medical Association
attacked pharmacists' right to refuse to dispense contraceptives,
including those which may cause abortion, at its June 11-14 Board of
Trustees' annual meeting.
The AMA's Board of Trustees told members that:
/"AMA supports legislation that would require individual pharmacists
and pharmacy chains to fill legally valid prescriptions or to
provide immediate referral to an appropriate alternative dispensing
pharmacy without interference."/
It further stated the following:
/"A pharmacist's deliberate refusal to dispense a drug on religious,
moral, or ethical grounds, i.e., pharmacist conscientious objection,
has been most often associated with Plan B, the emergency
contraceptive, and has received considerable attention in both the
lay media and in medical journal commentaries. Of all of the reasons
why a pharmacist might not dispense a legally valid prescription,
conscientious objection is the only one that places a pharmacist's
personal views in potential conflict with the best interests of the
patient."/
The /Washington Post/ illustrated the issue with a story on the DMC
Pharmacy scheduled to open in Chantilly, Va. in August. The pharmacy,
run by Pharmacists for Life [International] member Robert Semler will
feature all the medicines normally found in a pharmacy with one
exception. It won't be stocking contraceptives or abortifacients.
The /Post/ reports that the policies of pharmacies such as DMC, "have
left women traumatized and resulted in pharmacists being fired, fined or
reprimanded."
"The pharmacy is one of a small but growing number of drugstores around
the country that have become the latest front in a conflict pitting
patients' rights against those of health-care workers who assert a
"right of conscience" to refuse to provide care or products that they
find objectionable," the Post story says.
"The DMC Pharmacy has every right to refuse to aid in the destruction of
human beings," said American Life League's president, Judie Brown. "The
recent attacks on pharmacists who are committed to saving lives and not
destroying them serves to illustrate the role the AMA and the mainstream
media play in the culture of death."
"This is just the latest in a well-orchestrated series of attacks on the
freedom of conscience of medical professionals," a press release issued
by American Life League associate group Pharmacists for Life stated.
American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the
largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States
and is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the
moment of creation to natural death. For more information or press
inquiries, please contact Katie Walker at 540.659.4942.
*FOR MORE INFORMATION:
*Washington Post: Pro-Life Drugstores Market Beliefs (06.16.2008)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/15/AR2008061502180.html
<http://nvs.all.org/sendstudio/link.php?M=42879&N=293&L=1221&F=H>
Catholic News Agency: Pro-Life Pharmacies Opening Around the U.S.
(06.17.2008)
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12962
<http://nvs.all.org/sendstudio/link.php?M=42879&N=293&L=1223&F=H>
LifeNews.com: American Medical Association Attacking Pro-Life
Pharmacists on Plan B Drug (06.13.2008)
http://www.lifenews.com/nat3975.html
<http://nvs.all.org/sendstudio/link.php?M=42879&N=293&L=1222&F=H>
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_______________________________
Katie Walker
Director of Communication
American Life League
1179 Courthouse Road
Stafford, Virginia 22554
540.659.4942
kwalker at all.org <mailto:kwalker at all.org>
http://www.all.org/
<http://nvs.all.org/sendstudio/link.php?M=42879&N=293&L=43&F=H>
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