You're Fired!

God I wish I was a big khahuna executive at Target..

A 26-year-old Missouri woman was refused EC when she handed her prescription to a pharmacist at a Target store in Fenton, MO, on September 30. The woman was told by the pharmacist, “I won’t fill it. It’s my right not to fill it.” She was told that she could go to a local Walgreens instead. The woman said, “When the pharmacist told me she wouldn't [fill the prescription], I went from disbelief to shock to anger. I guess I'm still pretty angry. It seems unbelievable to me that a medical professional could/would deny access to a federally approved drug and impose their personal beliefs in a professional setting. I am also grateful that I did not need it filled at that time. I don't know how it would be if I had just been raped or if the condom broke and I was a feeling confusion and panic anyway -- and then was denied access and told to go across the street.”

The national headquarters of Target has not responded to three PPFA attempts to clarify its policy on pharmacist refusals.

The rational part of me says simply that we urgently need legislation that would make it a crime (I'd make it a felony) to deny legal prescription medication to any patient who presents the appropriate physician documentation (i.e. a script).

Now.. for my rant..

I don't give a flying fuck what religious nut-bag Jebus whoring this pharmacist wants to do on their own. Any pharmacists who behaves in such a manner is intentionally putting a person's health at risk by refusing to comply with physician ordered medical treatment. Period.

They are intentionally doing harm, and need to go to fucking jail to think about it for a while.

If they want to be all Jesus freaky on their own time.. great, but I'll be god damned if I would allow that sort of behavior if I could help it. I'd fire every one of them on the spot, no questions asked. Just get the fuck out.

As John @ Americablog put it..

Who's next?

- Target pharmacists who don't want to fill prescriptions for customers who killed Christ?
- Target pharmacists who only dispense HIV medicine to "innocent victims" of AIDS?
- Target pharmacists who want proof that women were really raped, and that they didn't "deserve it," before they sell them emergency contraception?
- Or how about Target pharmacists (or cashiers) who are simply Jehovah's Witnesses? Can they refuse to sell any medicine to anyone, even aspirin?

Are we ready to round them all up and ship them off to Utah?

Which reminds me.. a few weeks ago John and I were driving through one of the Dallas burbs and on the side of the road, there were about 10 people holding signs that read "Abortion kills babies". Nice - but factually inaccurate of course.

They looked like you would imagine. They were not very attractive. They were not very young. They were simply a bunch of frumpy middle aged and older Jesus freaks, no doubt disgusted with their own lives, and rabidly jealous of anyone who enjoys theirs.

I really can't see myself living in this Jebus amusement park for more then a few more years. I'd much rather live in a liberal big city, close to all the activities. I really despise the valium addicted blonde bimbo 40 year olds driving their Lexus SUV's with herds of future Jesus freaks in the back..

Which reminds me. There is a new show on HBO (or Showtime - can't remember which), called Weeds. It's a lot of fun to watch. The actors are terrific. If you watch it, the opening credits is a snapshot of where I live, figuratively speaking.

The last episode I saw, one of the characters was in a tizzy because he had signed up for the National Guard years ago to impress a girl. He got a letter telling him to get his ass to Iraq and he was a bit upset to say the least. What ensued was a massive tirade about lies and deceit, and war criminals. It was if I had written it.

Little Boxes

Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of tickytacky
Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same
There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses all went to the university
Where they were put in boxes and they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and there's lawyers, and business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf course and drink their martinis dry,
And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
And the children go to summer camp and then to the university
Where they are put in boxes and they come out all the same.

And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.