If a pharmacist refuses to fill a prescription based on moral reasons, should the pharmacist have to return the prescription to the patient?
A. All clinical decisions of a health care professional are based upon moral grounds. If you study morality, you will come to understand that it involves all actions of a person, and the determination of whether the actions are right or wrong. Morality extends beyond sex restrictions, despite what the drive-by media, Planned Parenthood and their fellow travelers teach. In the past it has been considered wrong to dispense a drug with abuse potential to a person who is abusing. It has also been considered wrong to give back prescriptions presented by an abuser to obtain the drugs for abuse purposes. Although killing or harming humans is an abuse of drugs, it is has become customary, and sometimes legally required to allow a person seeking such drugs to retain their prescription.
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