I used to like you Target. You've been convenient, cost-effective, and a one-stop resource for many of my shopping needs.
Which is why it's so hard for me to say goodbye to you today. It's not because you suddenly became inconvenient. Quite the contrary: there's one of you not too far from me at the Watertown Mall. It's not because your prices went up. No, all of these wonderful qualities remain the same. Everything about you is just as it has always been.
But what I didn't know about you, Target, is that you have no respect for reproductive rights. You think it's okay to deny prescribed emergency contraceptives to people if it conflicts with your own personal morality. And that's a quality that I don't like in my friends.
So Iong, Target. I hope that we can reconcile one day, but until then I'll have to search elsewhere for low-priced kitchen and home sundries. I'll have to go to neighboring Best Buy for CDs and DVDs. I'll have to find my 6-packs of socks and 2-for-1 boxers at other retail outlets. If you ever come down from your moralistic high-horse, give me a call. We'll go shopping.
Comments
Okay so I believe that it's absurd to deny fulfilling your prescription. So they forward you to another pharmacy that will fulfill your prescription, but that is just like them doing it. That's like not killing someone and then not helping the person when you can, it’s the same as you killing him or her yourself. A pharmacist’s job is to fulfill a service, to give me the drugs (or in this case a female) the drugs that a doctor has already made the decision to approve to give.
Posted by: J | November 14, 2005 06:59 PM
As you all know I am an Independent. (who is also a bad speller) I think both sides of the political parties have good things about them. I think any kind of absolutism is bad. That being said...
I feel that Target is wrong in doing this. Personal views should not get involved with doing one's duty. They said they are a pharmacy. Therefore they should fill every prescription if it's with a valid doctors note. To discriminate according to one's views is wrong. What's next, a pharmacy worker named Tom Cruise not giving out anti-depressants because he doesn't believe in them.
Posted by: Tom | November 14, 2005 10:43 PM
I'm waiting for the Christian Scientist pharmacist who refuses to fill any prescriptions...
Posted by: Daniel | November 15, 2005 08:17 AM
Here's what I want to know -- what, if any, pharmacies do NOT have such a policy? Especially given that they're following national recommendations, I seriously doubt that any other chain is different.
Posted by: Gwen | November 15, 2005 11:17 AM
And apparently, I am wrong.
http://www.saveroe.com/fillmypillsnow/scored.php
Though I will say that certain pharmacies in the "thumbs up" category still have pretty vague policies, it's apparent that Target isn't doing all they can. Boo.
Posted by: Gwen | November 15, 2005 11:23 AM
Thanks for the link. Target's been getting all the press, so I didn't even know about Walgreen's. I guess I'm doing my shopping at CVS from now on.
*NOTE: I don't actually have any prescriptions, but next time I need aspirin...
Posted by: Daniel | November 15, 2005 03:03 PM