Will Contraceptives Disappear From Pharmacies for Good?

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  Posted by Benedict Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:26pm PDT

  If you don't like the store, don't shop there. Society is too selfish and snotty and cruel to stop selling contraceptives altogether. If a store opened up in my town that didn't sell contraceptives, porn, or any other immoral, disgusting products, I'd be there for anything they sold that I need. Let people have free speech. It's the shop owners choice, and God willing, the trend will really take off.

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  Posted by Lisa Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:03am PDT

  Wow, Benedict. You sound like someone who wants to punish people (notably women) who want to have sex. The connection between oral contraceptives and abortion is well, nearly non-existent but it appears that even some scientists (pharmacists in this case), continue to buy in it.

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  Posted by Tish Sun Aug 24, 2008 10:59pm PDT

  If it's "sweeping the nation," surely there is a reason. Maybe people are finally learning. And it's clear that the article identified women, not the poster.

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  Posted by monkey Sun Sep 7, 2008 9:51pm PDT

  my husband and i will hopefully receive a miracle. I've recently had a cardiac pacemaker-defefrbrelator placed in Nov. 07. I'd acuctaly had a full cardiac arrest, that was a triple code, nurological,respitory,and heart. it all resulted from bring hit in a wheel chair. an anurisem was then found in my brain stem. the code started when the anurisium bust by the pressure of my neck in a cat scan. today i am 100 pounds lighter, and deal with the fact that i 'died and been ressurected from death. if it wasn't for my husband's navy military back ground i 'd have die from being released with mrs. it two years to clear, yet today i still have hopes of having children. we've been informed that invetro was an option. i've been clearance to work. i also a temoral lobe epilsey.we have inquired and now haave recieve good reports of how and when to proceed. we are deffinately pro life. the only thing is there is still a minor deficet i deal with. my college final gpa was 4.0. i question if while we are waiting to pursure a course of three year, to graduate as one with a master's degree, specifictley for repeate offenders of sexual abuse/drunk drivers. as a child i was abused by the time i'd arrived home. i still have a photographic memory, and deal with these things, with the ideas that that horror is gone.we refuse to adopt, become foster parents, we've chosen this way so our children can be raised to respect others a learn to reach the own dreams.

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  Posted by Matt Mon Oct 13, 2008 9:16pm PDT

  No offense Benedict this has nothing to do with freedom of speech. As a healthcare provider your job is to do just that. As a person who teaches future pharmacists it is there duty to provide the necessary treatments to their patients. Since oral contraceptives have other uses and can be helpful in treating serious conditions- such as dramatically reducing ovarian cysts, the pharmacy and the pharmacist, much like MDs should first do no harm. Unfortunately somewhere down the road people forgot this. Morality arguments based on which drugs you should stock have no place in the medical profession- if you have a problem separating your job as a caregiver from your personal beliefs then you should find a new job. Again oral contraceptives have every right to be on every pharmacies' shelf. If you pull them off the shelf in the same right you should pull Cialis and Viagra off the shelf as well. The moral argument being that they increase sexually transmitted diseases through increased extramarital affairs (International Society for Sexual Medicine- http://www.stuff.co.nz/4558729a11.html). That would mean that pharmacists promote adultery if they sold it to people (insert extreme sarcastic tone)

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