{"id":1613,"date":"2007-06-20T19:16:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T01:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2007-06-20T19:16:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T01:16:35","slug":"issues-of-conscience-and-arrogance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"Issues of Conscience and Arrogance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatfallstribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2007706030302\">Great Falls Tribune: Pharmacy draws fire for stopping the sale of birth control pills.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK&#8230;\u00c2? the problem at hand is that the new owners of the pharmacy feel that stocking oral contraceptives is detrimental to their consciences and plan to stop stocking them&#8230; AFTER THEIR CURRENT SUPPLY RUNS OUT!!!<\/p>\n<p>Yeah&#8230; I can understand making the decision not to stock them and it&#8217;s their right.\u00c2? However&#8230; after putting an ad in the newspaper on Mother&#8217;s Day announcing this and claiming that it&#8217;s because such meds are sinful, isn&#8217;t it a bit hypocritical of them to keep dispensing the meds regardless of their supply?<\/p>\n<p>I read a story about a pharmacist who just felt it was wrong that he was selling these expensive cancer meds while his pharmacy also sold cigarettes.\u00c2? So&#8230; he took all the tobacco out to the parking lot and ran over it until it was all smushed.\u00c2? He lost at least a few thousand dollars in stock but he made his point and stood up for his beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>So should the Andersons and Depners take their supplies of Ortho-Cyclen and Levlen and grind the pills into powder?\u00c2? Not necessarily but they should just take the loss and stop selling it immediately if their consciences are so burdened by the sale of these meds rather than putting a self-righteous ad in the Trib and acting like capitalist morons.<\/p>\n<p>(Thank you to Jack, my wonderful independent pharmacist who chats with me about my cats and researches drug interactions for me in addition to answering my many questions.\u00c2? You rock my world.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Falls Tribune: Pharmacy draws fire for stopping the sale of birth control pills. OK&#8230;\u00c2? the problem at hand is that the new owners of the pharmacy feel that stocking oral contraceptives is detrimental to their consciences and plan to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1613\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,25,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-health","category-life-in-big-sky-country"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-q1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}