Julie Cantor and Ken Baum | the Limits of Conscientious

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Julie Cantor and Ken Baum | The Limits of Conscientious Objection-May Pharmacists Refuse to Fill Prescriptions for Emergency Contraception?
Cantor and Baum present detailed arguments for and against giving pharmacists the right to refuse emergency contraception to patients. They also discuss the dilemma pharmacists face in balancing their medical obligations to patients, such as duty to care, with their own moral beliefs. Since courts have ruled that moral objections must be balanced with the burden imposed on others, they conclude that pharmacists who object to filling prescriptions for emergency contraception should be required to provide alternatives for patients.
-According to those who argue against a pharmacist's right to block a prescription for emergency contraception,

• A) a pharmacist's own autonomy and self-interest should be placed above the client's.
• B) a client's own autonomy and self-interest should be placed above the pharmacist's.
• C) clients and pharmacists have equal autonomy and self-interest.
• D) neither clients nor pharmacists have the right to autonomy and self-interest.

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