{"id":3424,"date":"2000-06-05T17:57:46","date_gmt":"2000-06-05T17:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2013-08-05T18:11:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T18:11:39","slug":"pharmacy-colleges-quash-conscientious-objection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy colleges quash conscientious objection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Greg J. Edwards<\/p>\n<h5>Pharmacists are critically thinking individuals who integrate their values into their work life-and they are not mere robots who are glorified order-takers for physicians. We should be promoting such thinking, not punishing it.&#8211;Nancy Metcalfe, pharmacist<\/h5>\n<p>Pharmacists are said to be the most trusted professionals in medicine; they&#8217;re conscientious; we rely on their discretion and their judgment; they have our confidence; we respect them; but do pharmacists respect themselves, let alone one another?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good question, because in Canada, pharmacists, unlike doctors, find that conscientious objection is a bitter pill for their professional licensing organizations to swallow.<\/p>\n<p>The pharmacists&#8217; governors pay lip service to a pharmacist&#8217;s right to refuse to dispense products, but, in fact, a customer&#8217;s convenience trumps a pharmacist&#8217;s freedoms of conscience and religion: pharmacists are free to object but in the end they must refer or otherwise help customers get the objectionable product. 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We should be promoting such thinking, not punishing it.&#8211;Nancy Metcalfe, pharmacist Pharmacists are said to be the most trusted professionals in medicine; they&#8217;re conscientious; we rely on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3424\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pharmacy colleges quash conscientious objection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,247,19],"tags":[780,783,572,559,562,591,779,782,1237,784,781,223,777,579,275,778],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-morning-after-pill","category-repression-of-conscience","tag-alberta-college-of-pharmacists","tag-brenda-osmond","tag-canadian-medical-association","tag-canadian-pharmacists-association","tag-college-of-pharmacists-of-british-columbia","tag-cristina-alarcon","tag-ellen-wasan","tag-evangelical-fellowship-of-canada","tag-iain-t-benson","tag-janet-becigneul","tag-janet-epp-buckingham","tag-manitoba-pharmaceutical-association","tag-nancy-metcalfe","tag-napra","tag-pharmacists","tag-ron-guse"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Pharmacy colleges quash conscientious objection - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3424\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pharmacy colleges quash conscientious objection - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Canada Greg J. 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