Article
Promulgating Conscience: Drafting Pharmacist Conscientious Objector Clauses that Balance a Pharmacist's Moral Right to Refuse to Dispense Medication with Non-Benficiaries' Economic and Legal Rights
Michigan State University College of Law Journal of Medicine and Law
(2011)
Abstract
Around the country pharmacists have refused to fill prescriptions that violate their religious or moral beliefs. Controversial prescriptions include birth control pills, emergency contraception, medical abortifacients, infertility medications, erectile dysfunction medications, and will, in all likelihood, include euthanasia drug prescriptions. This article analyzes the law informing states considering pharmacist conscientous clause statutes and proposes a checklist that states may use when drafting pharmacist conscience clause litigation. This guidance protects a pharmacist's conscientious objections while appropriately protecting and balancing the needs of non-beneficiaries.
Disciplines
Publication Date
January 1, 2011
Citation Information
Kimberly D. Phillips. "Promulgating Conscience: Drafting Pharmacist Conscientious Objector Clauses that Balance a Pharmacist's Moral Right to Refuse to Dispense Medication with Non-Benficiaries' Economic and Legal Rights" Michigan State University College of Law Journal of Medicine and Law (2011) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kimberly_phillips/3/