{"id":7098,"date":"2004-02-04T09:34:43","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T14:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/02\/04\/i-can-force-my-ethic-on-you-but-not-vice-versa\/"},"modified":"2004-02-04T09:34:43","modified_gmt":"2004-02-04T14:34:43","slug":"i-can-force-my-ethic-on-you-but-not-vice-versa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/02\/i-can-force-my-ethic-on-you-but-not-vice-versa\/","title":{"rendered":"I can force my ethic on you, but not vice versa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">Yesterday we had the story of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtov9.com\/health\/2816538\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eckerd&#8217;s pharmicist <\/a>who refused to fill a prescription for the morning-after pill. Today we have a similar story from England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">A WOMAN was told she could not have a &#8220;morning after&#8221; contraceptive Pill because it was against the pharmacist&#8217;s religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The married woman, who does not want to be named, was &#8220;extremely upset&#8221; after being denied the emergency treatment because the pharmacist at an Asda store in Stockport was a devout Christian. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">She claims she was not advised of alternative pharmacies as the pharmacist refused to speak to her. The store later denied this. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">As it was late afternoon the woman, an office administrator from Stockport, went without taking the medication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Now she is blaming Asda for not providing an acceptable service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">She said: &#8220;I am absolutely outraged that a member of staff can be allowed to refuse to sell a product which is well within my legal rights to buy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;I understand the need for respect for employees and their religion, but when I visit a store such as Asda, I do not expect to have staff impose their moral ethics on me or the choice of my purchases.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchesteronline.co.uk\/news\/stories\/Detail_LinkStory=80232.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Of course she had no problem with forcing her moral ethics on the pharmicist.  The culture of death marches on when an abortafacient becomes a &#8220;choice of my purchases.&#8221;  A hearty thanks to those pharmicist that don&#8217;t cave in the pressure, they definitely need our prayer support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we had the story of the Eckerd&#8217;s pharmicist who refused to fill a prescription for the morning-after pill. Today we have a similar story from England. A WOMAN was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098","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=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}