{"id":12049,"date":"2012-02-03T13:03:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T18:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12049"},"modified":"2012-02-03T13:43:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T18:43:58","slug":"what-is-the-value-of-a-persons-conscience-to-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12049","title":{"rendered":"What Is The Value Of A Person’s Conscience To Society ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately that is not currently a hypothetical question. KEPR-TV<\/a>\u00a0reported on Wednesday that a Federal Judge will consider if Washington state can require pharmacies to stock and sell Plan B or other emergency contraceptives, even in the face of religious objections by druggists who believe they destroy human life.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton heard closing arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit that claims state rules violate the constitutional rights of pharmacists by requiring them to dispense such medicine. The state requires them to dispense any medication for which there is a community need and to stock a representative assortment of drugs needed by their patients.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When did emergency contraception (read ‘morning-after pill’) become a community need?<\/p>\n

The article further reports:<\/p>\n

The pharmacists argued they can easily and quickly refer customers to nearby pharmacies willing to sell the drug. Individual pharmacists are allowed to pass a prescription to another druggist in the same store, provided the patient’s order was filled without delay. But that leaves no option for a lone pharmacist, or for the owner of a pharmacy who also has religious objections to a particular drug.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pharmacists “can violate their core religious beliefs and participate in the taking of a human life, or they can lose their license,” lawyer Kristen Waggoner said during her closing argument.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before you decide this case has nothing to do with you for various reasons, let’s walk down the road a bit and see where it goes. Every person has a slightly different conscience. That is because we are all different and have different life experiences. However, when we begin to violate other peoples’ consciences because we share a different belief, we lose some of the reins that keep society from spinning out of control. I am sure that there were people in Germany who were offended when the government began killing the disabled and the infirm. I am sure their feelings were ignored. By the time Hitler got around to killing the Jews, the idea of a conscience was erased. There were too few people left with an idea that something was wrong to stop what was going on. Do we want to go there? Violating a person’s conscience and claiming it is part of the law is a very dangerous thing for a society to do.<\/p>\n

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