Shut up and do as you're told!

You're just the pharmacist. It's not like you're a trained professional. What business do you have deciding for yourself what your store will carry? We'll make the choices for you, dammit! That's why we're pro-choice!

The language originally proposed at yesterday’s meeting by the Department of Health would have required that pharmacists fill all lawfully prescribed drugs and devices unless those drugs are unsafe for the client or fraudulent, or if there is another pharmacist available on-site who will fill the prescription.

But by the end of the meeting an alternative version emerged that permits a pharmacist to refuse to serve a patient and refer them elsewhere.

The meeting was largely dominated by Pharmacy Board member Donna Dockter, a Seattle pharmacist whose term expires next January. Dockter spent the majority of the meeting expressing her strong opposition to a pharmacists’ duty to fill lawful prescriptions and advocated for new language that would permit a pharmacist to refuse a patient and refer them somewhere else.

Dockter’s version reads that if a pharmacist “cannot fill a lawfully prescribed stocked drug or device,” that pharmacist may “transfer the prescription to another pharmacist,” regardless of whether the other pharmacy stocks the drug or not.

You know, the mantra of the pro-death crowd used to be "Don't push your morality on us!" Now it's "Respect our auth-or-i-tah!" Pushing morality is only bad if religious people do it; we shouldn't even be allowed to keep our morality to ourselves.

I thought this comment was especially representative of the uterofascist line:

Donna Dockter, eh? Does anyone know what pharmacy this dumb fucking bitch works at? It would be nice if we could exercise some consumer McCarthyism and boycott pharmacies that employ Fundie pharmacists.

Of course, by the logic these jackbooters employ, it should be illegal to make business choices based on your personal beliefs. But we'll leave that aside for a moment. Besides, I expecct that personal harassment will be forthcoming instead. If I was able to find out quickly enough where she works, I imagine the brownshirts will too. Her home address shouldn't be that hard to find, either. I wouldn't want to hold the insurance policy on, say, her front picture window. (Update: Found 'em both. Took about five minutes.)

Let's note first that "Fundies" are a very small segment of the people who will be affected by this. The largest group is Catholics, and that's what really gravels the uterofascists. Frankly, the Catholic church is the biggest obstacle to making opposition to abortion illegal. The Church stubbornly refuses to change its stance to reflect non-members' demands, and this is intolerable. Allowing practicing Catholics to be members of professions that would otherwise be involved in abortion is a tacit admission that there is a moral question involved. So they have to be eliminated.

The next step will be to require all doctors to offer abortions, under the same logic. Then lawsuits against the Church will start cropping up demanding that they desist from prohibiting its members from participating in abortions. In the end, these people are hoping to see the Church outlawed altogether. (Don't laugh – it's happened before in this country.)

The other thing to bear in mind is that the venom is directed only at people who don't believe in abortion. Other private businesses are left alone. Would there be a hue and cry against a convenience store that refused to sell cigarettes? Not bloody likely!

I'll believe that these people are honest in their convictions when they support a law requiring kosher delis to sell ham.

Via Washington State Political Report.