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Okay, this is an open letter to all you religious people out there:
Those of us who haven't signed up for your death trip would appreciate if you'd quit fucking the place up while you're here. If you spent more time concerning yourself with being nice, polite, and respectful to the people around you instead of lost in your fevered imaginings of what happens after you're dead, and foisting those fantasies on the rest of us, this would be a much nicer place for all of us. If you can't handle this simple concept, move to Jonestown and drink the fucking cool-aid already, but leave the rest of us alone. I'm sure your servitude to the invisible man is personally gratifying, and hey, I'm glad you're enjoying it. Keep it to yourself. Those of us among you who actually use our brains aren't going to be convinced, and when you're done pissing us off by insulting our faculties, we're no longer going to get along because you can't handle being around people who don't share your world view.
Piss off,
Jamie
Those of us who haven't signed up for your death trip would appreciate if you'd quit fucking the place up while you're here. If you spent more time concerning yourself with being nice, polite, and respectful to the people around you instead of lost in your fevered imaginings of what happens after you're dead, and foisting those fantasies on the rest of us, this would be a much nicer place for all of us. If you can't handle this simple concept, move to Jonestown and drink the fucking cool-aid already, but leave the rest of us alone. I'm sure your servitude to the invisible man is personally gratifying, and hey, I'm glad you're enjoying it. Keep it to yourself. Those of us among you who actually use our brains aren't going to be convinced, and when you're done pissing us off by insulting our faculties, we're no longer going to get along because you can't handle being around people who don't share your world view.
Piss off,
Jamie
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(I typoed that "how you really fell," which is an appropriate typo if I ever saw one, but you'd throw things at me.)
Not that I disagree, but what brought it on?
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http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5381763.html
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I mean, the pill has been around for decades. Has this kind of bullshit been going on all along and it's only just now getting media attention, or did the national I.Q. actually drop within the last year?
And one wonders, would those pharmacists have also refused to sell men packs of condoms?
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I don't know how long this has been going on, and I'd be interested to know. If this is a recent phenomenon, I have some highly speculative thoughts on why it may be so, but I think I'll refrain from mentioning them until I find substantiation one way or the other.
What bugs me about it, is this: if these pharmacists are so morally opposed to dispensing a drug that was prescribed by a doctor, why the fuck are they willing to work for a company that carries it? How about prescribing other drugs made by the same manufacturer? Why don't they open their own pharmacies and see how well their personal moralities play in the marketplace?
Where it sucks, of course, is those situations where that one pharmacy is the only game in town. Around here, a woman has her choice of pharmacies (hell, in this state you can get the morning-after pill without a prescription from a doctor), but in Podunk, Idaho, choices are limited.
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I have no evidence, but I strongly suspect that most will rationalize this in terms of the specific effects of the birth control pill, thus giving them a reason to be hypocritical and sell condoms, but not the pill.
But as you say, condoms are not prescription items.
Where it sucks, of course, is those situations where that one pharmacy is the only game in town.
Yes. Otherwise, the market would be the good and sufficient solution. Stupid question, since I don't need to worry about this sort of idiocy: can you get birth control prescriptions filled by mail?
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I've been wondering that myself, and honestly, I have no idea. (Not to let you in on more than you care to know, but it's been awhile since I've been on the pill, and since BC is freely available where I live it's not really an issue. At least, not right now.)
The FDA has a page about buying drugs online; presumably such drugs are delivered by mail. I cannot find such a page on contraception of any kind in the index, which I find suspicious.
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To Corwin--some drugstores in the South do not stock condoms, presumably for religious reasons. I also remember that not all drugstores carried condoms in the 60s and 70s, and if the store sold condoms, you often had to ask for them from the pharmacist.
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