Saturday, March 11, 2006
Imagine...
...the year is 2010. Jeb Bush is president, and Condi Rice is vice-president. Roe v. Wade has been reversed, and several states have banned abortion.
Deep in the heart of Alabama a young pharmacist's heart goes out to a 16-year-old girl who's been raped by her step-father and is pregnant. The girl has returned from a trip to New York with a prescription for "Plan B" contraceptive--which is illegal in Alabama. But the girl's tears and anguish move the young pharmacist--she had an awful step-dad, too--and, declaring herself a "conscientious objector", she fills the prescription from the stash she keeps for the daughters of local elected officials.
How quickly would today's crop of "conscientious objector" pharmacists leap to the defense of this young pharmacist?
a) Immediately, since all pharmacists have the right to follow their moral sense when filling prescriptions;
b) Eventually, when the girl's plight became known, and public sympathy swelled;
c) When Hell freezes over.
Deep in the heart of Alabama a young pharmacist's heart goes out to a 16-year-old girl who's been raped by her step-father and is pregnant. The girl has returned from a trip to New York with a prescription for "Plan B" contraceptive--which is illegal in Alabama. But the girl's tears and anguish move the young pharmacist--she had an awful step-dad, too--and, declaring herself a "conscientious objector", she fills the prescription from the stash she keeps for the daughters of local elected officials.
How quickly would today's crop of "conscientious objector" pharmacists leap to the defense of this young pharmacist?
a) Immediately, since all pharmacists have the right to follow their moral sense when filling prescriptions;
b) Eventually, when the girl's plight became known, and public sympathy swelled;
c) When Hell freezes over.
