Prometheus 6

Quote of note:

The more relevant finding was that about 39 percent of the pharmacists felt they should be able to refuse to fill a legal prescription, apart from another 37 percent who felt they should be able to refuse with a referral to a more cooperative pharmacist. (Only 23 percent said that a patient's legal rights should prevail over the pharmacist's misgivings.)

So at least when it comes to emergency contraception, almost 4 out of 10 pharmacists would consider it appropriate to brush off a woman's legal request for services. I would have expected to see a larger portion of the pharmacist population putting the welfare of their patients before their own moral judgments. If nothing else, there seems to be a vast difference of opinion between pharmacists and physicians--a previous survey of doctors by HCD Research found that 78 percent of physicians thought that pharmacists should be obliged to provide emergency contraception.