{"id":2357,"date":"2009-10-10T12:10:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T17:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2009\/10\/10\/catholic-a-chemist-but-he-wont-sell-the-pill\/"},"modified":"2009-10-10T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T17:10:47","slug":"catholic-a-chemist-but-he-wont-sell-the-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2009\/10\/catholic-a-chemist-but-he-wont-sell-the-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic, a chemist but he won&#039;t sell the pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A PHARMACIST has stopped selling contraceptives because of his strong religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Dal Broi is telling women using oral contraceptive pills for birth control to take their scripts to another chemist.<\/p>\n<p>He removed condoms from his East Griffith Pharmacy several weeks ago and has banned the sale of emergency contraception morning-after pills.<\/p>\n<p>These pills have been available without a prescription for between $20 and $30 since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dal Broi is handing out a leaflet to women with scripts for the contraceptive pill saying that he accepts the official teaching of the Catholic Church against the use of artificial contraception and has a moral objection to dispensing them.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dal Broi, who is married with four children, yesterday refused to comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"blog\">Not surprised he refused to comment considering how negative the rest of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/catholic-a-chemist-but-he-wont-sell-the-pill-20091010-grka.html\">the article is<\/a>. I say &#8220;Three Cheers for Me. Broi!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">More from another article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As a practising Catholic, it is my obligation to accept the official teaching of the Catholic Church against the use of artificial contraception,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I dispense an oral contraceptive pill I will ask the lady to sit at our counselling desk where I explain that there is a leaflet in the box regarding our pharmacy policy on the pill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It explains that I accept the teachings of the Catholic Church against the use of artificial contraception, and asks the lady to respect my view on the use of artificial contraception and have it filled elsewhere next time if it is being taken for contraceptive purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dal Broi said the pharmacy would continue to dispense the pill to women taking it for other medical purposes, such as painful or irregular periods, and hormonal and skin problems. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/god-before-contraception\/story-e6freuy9-1225785346498\" target=\"_blank\">[reference]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PHARMACIST has stopped selling contraceptives because of his strong religious beliefs. Trevor Dal Broi is telling women using oral contraceptive pills for birth control to take their scripts to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}