Pharmacists should not have to violate morals

IN your editorial titled “Contraceptive sales: Pharmacists’ attitudes add to problems” (Irish Examiner, July 27) you deplore the fact that some pharmacists refuse to sell contraceptives or the morning-after pill because they disapprove of their use.

Pharmacists should not have to violate morals

I cannot see where the problem arises as your editorial states that condoms are available even at corner shops and the president of the Pharmaceutical Union said on RTÉ that about 99% of pharmacies stock contraceptives.

Whatever happened to freedom of choice and conscientious objections? No one, least of all a health care provider, should be required to violate his or her conscience by participating in a product or procedure that he or she deems harmful.

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