Instead though they decide to arse about on the sidelines with more unnecessary legislation.

On this, I can understand someone having a religious objection to something. I personally have a religious objection to killing someone, which is why I’ve never joined the armed forces. If you’re a doctor and you object to the use of contraception then you should have picked another job, or go work in a research role.

I used to teach a kid who’s family were Johovah’s Witnesses. One of the things they are against is blood transfusions. Yet, the kid’s dad was a surgeon – he did his job and presumably put his beliefs aside for that aspect of his work.

Same thing with pharmacists. A woman visits her doctor and gets a prescription for the morning after pill or some other form of contraception. The pharmacist at the store she goes to refuses to fill her legal prescription, and refuses to tell her where she could fill it. The company that pharmacy works for could not discipline the employee for refusing to do their job.

In the most extreme scenario, this could result in places that are primarily related to women’s reproductive health (like Planned Parenthood) hiring a nurse who subsequently refuses to dispense birth control. They couldn’t fire that person for refusing to do their job.

I understand that some people have moral objections to birth control. That’s fine. They’re free to feel that way and not use birth control. They have the right to believe what they want to. They do not, however, have the “right” to be licensed pharmacists, or licensed nurses. There is no “right” to be a doctor or nurse. Those are state-regulated, licensed positions. People who don’t feel that they can do the job that the state provides them a license to do should have that license revoked.

Can you see someone refusing to fill a prescription for AIDS medications because they believe that AIDS is a plague sent by God? Or refusing to fill Viagra prescriptions unless a man provides his marriage certificate? What about a Christian Scientist who becomes a pharmacist and then refuses to dispense any prescriptions at all, to anyone?

Because this is primarily an issue about women’s health and reproductive rights, it’s very emotional. People don’t stop to think about the incredibly flawed logic behind this law. People who are licensed by the state to fulfill a task can’t be allowed to let their religious views dictate what they will and will not do to help people. Where would it end?