June 22, 2007

• Being in the Pharmaceutical industry, I see how there are a lot of problems and issues associated with drugs, insurance companies, etc.  One of the issues that has been bubbling the past year is the questions whether medical professionals specifically pharmacists and doctors can refuse to dispense or write medications based on religious beliefs.  It seems there have been more and more incidents lately of a pharmacist refusing to dispensing Plan B based on religious belief.  What's even worse was a story I read earlier on MSNBC about a woman who was raped and when she saw the doctor at the ER to have a rape examination performed, the doctor refused to write her a prescription for emergency contraception based on his religious beliefs.  She left the emergency room to find a doctor that would write her a prescription, but it's almost a slap in the face to her that she has to go through the whole agony of having to hunt that down after being raped. 

  I know that some people believe in life beginning at the point of conception and an embryo is considered a life.  I get that point of view, and I can understand why people would think that this would be killing a life.  What I don't get is how that doctor could be so heartless as to not even direct the woman to someone else that would help.  The majority of the people that are caught up in this dilemma have been women and this never seemed to be the case so much in the past few years.  It almost seems as if the abortion issue has been widely politicized and now on the verge of endangering people's lives because people feel as if they need to take a hard stance on the issue.  I thought it was a doctor's duty to do no harm and if you don't agree with some of the medical procedures being done, at least help the woman out and not leave her hanging. 

  I do in fact believe that it's a woman's right to have an abortion should they choose it.  In this day and age, we live in a society that seems to allow people to control whatever they want with their body except when it comes to abortion.  We're allowed to drive a 3000 pound moving vehicle at the age of 16 that can become a deadly weapon.  We can purchase handguns at the age of 18 with a simple and quick background check.  Look at what happened at Virginia Tech and even Columbine when HS kids were able to obtain guns and murder fellow students.  Everything is becoming so partisan these days and people are becoming ever more extreme.  People are even murdering doctors now because they provide abortions.  Did the world seem more innocent 20 years ago?

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