Isn the pharmacist who declines to dispense such chemicals “imposing” his morality on his client?
A. The pharmacist who declines to dispense drugs or counseling which he knows to violate his conscience, properly understood, is resisting an objective evil and, in fact, is doing his client a favor. On the contrary, those who wish to mandate dispensing of drugs under any and all conditions or whims are really the ones imposing a false, relativistic, secular and humanistic morality on the pharmacist who understands that he cannot cooperate in something objectively wrong or evil. Pharmacists are under no obligation, even if written in the positive law, to violate the Divine Law. This would include, but not be limited to any mandate to dispense or counsel for contraception, abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide. It is a grave error, which has arisen especially over the past 500 years, that a person may do as he pleases without negative consequences in both the temporal and eternal spheres. Q.
