[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: PFLI's Brauer comments on proposed HHS conscience regs

[PFLI PharmAid Center]

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 23 Aug 2008 AD

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Mr. Smydra (at Google News, at its request),

Let me know if you need further info.  I consider it to be more 
significant to promulgate the site of Pharmacists for Life 
International, rather than my own information, should there be 
considerations of space.

Best regards,

KB
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Karen L. Brauer MS, RPh
Pharmacists for Life International


I am President of Pharmacists for Life International, an organization 
founded by Dr. Bogomir Kuhar in 1984.  It remains the most fully 
prolife  organization for pharmacists.   Find our politically incorrect 
site at http://www.pfli.org  .  In contrast to some of our primary, 
ideological opponents,   Pharmacists for Life International truly makes 
no profit, and the officers and staff are volunteers.


Comment: 
I find the firestorm concerning the availability of abortion and 
artificial birth control drugs and devices to be ludicrous in the face 
of health care realities.  These things are not lifesaving nor life 
preserving necessities. 

There has been little to no attention given to the patients with severe, 
chronic and/or terminal conditions who face problems ranging from 
inconvenience and long waits, to denial of care.   Many patients must 
special-order medications necessary for their survival.  Some have 
access only directly from the manufacturer or from specialty 
pharmacies.  Some must register for limited access medications, and must 
wait for approval and shipment.  Many patients submit to blood tests 
regularly to be allowed access to very necessary therapy.   Look to this 
link  for the story of Barbara Wagner, who was told that  chemotherapy 
for her lung cancer would be denied, but that physician assisted suicide 
would be covered:  
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.support.viewStory.cls?cid=106873&sid=1&fid=1

Here's  a very recent personal example:  Dicloxacillin suspension cannot 
be found at most pharmacies, and so my child had to be switched to 
another antibiotic, which was not the first choice for the condition 
being treated.  Unlike the people  who need instantaneous access to 
their birth control,  I did not complain about this long standing 
reality of health care.  Not all products and services are readily 
available.    The hospital nearest to my home does not yet handle open 
heart surgical procedures.   I have not seen  protesters  outside this 
facility, bemoaning the fact that they  need to go to the next town for 
this vital health care service, nor has there been coverage in the 
media.   There is no public  outcry to force this hospital and its 
practitioners to provide open heart surgery. 

Why is there such a burning need to force medical professionals to 
provide artificial birth control and abortion?  

It is the  coercive nature of  certain groups of people which 
necessitates the regulations  recently promulgated by the Dept of Health 
and Human Services, respecting the conscientious objections  of those 
who choose not to kill humans  at any stage of development.

This agency has ventured into the business of making regulations against 
intolerance. 
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PFLI supports pharmacist rights of conscience NOT to be forced to 
dispense or counsel for chemicals which violate their sincerely held 
religious, moral or ethical beliefs.  For more info see:
http://www.pfli.org/main.php?pfli=conscienceclausefaq

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