Do you not understand that you also paint things as black and white?
That's a fair point. It's not entirely accurate, but it is fair.
they arent wrong in the first trimester?
No, because as I explained before, I don't think that women can be forced to become or forced to remain walking, talking incubators, with no control over the workings of their bodies. It really is that simple. As to why I think the first trimester is a fairly bright red line in my opinion? Quite simple really: before the first trimester, it is
impossible for the fetus to survive (given current and forthcoming technology). I believe the earliest preemie to survive was significantly older than that at over 20 weeks, but I don't have the reference in front of me. Is the line perfect? No. But I'm not concerned with perfection.
at any time?
Like many others, I am torn, not so much as to whether there should be a bright line, but as to where that line should be on the temporal axis. I think that, ultimately, the only line that is bright and unambiguous enough, is birth. Let me be clear: I'm not suggesting that abortions at 48 weeks are OK. I'm merely pointing out that arbitrary line drawing is a difficult problem; most answers as to where the line should be placed are rather simplistic and have serious unintended consequences.
elective abortions? abortions based on sex?
I have no problem with elective abortions if the fetus has (or will have) serious medical complications. As for abortions based on sex, that's a rather specious argument. If someone desperately wants a kid of a particular gender (or of particular characteristics) there are much better ways to go about it than fucking, then testing and aborting the results that don't pass the quality check. So I don't worry too much about this issue.
I also think that it's a bad idea to categorically rule out the necessity of such procedures. There might, for example, come a time when there is a dramatic imbalance in the male to female ratio in the world, and more children of a particular gender are needed to help ensure the survival of the species.
But I have allowed this discussion to drift away from contraception to abortion. So let's go back:
Imagine a surgeon saying "the patient has lost a lot of blood, and needs a blood transfusion; autotransfusion isn't an option and as a Jehovah's Witness blood transfusions violate my conscience, so I must refuse to perform this procedure." Back to pharmacists and the filling of prescriptions, this translates to: "I see your otherwise valid prescription, but contraception violates my consience, so I must refuse to fill this prescription."
When it comes down to it, I don't think it's a big problem, since most pharmacies usually have at least two people behind the counter, so it should be fairly easy for the conscientious pharmacist to say "Yes ma'am. One moment while we fill this prescription" or "Your prescription will be ready for pickup in 5 minutes" before handing it off to the other pharmacist who is
able to do their job right, or, if worse comes to worst, to refer the woman to another nearby pharmacy. But in principle, I find it
unacceptable for people to refuse to do a job they voluntarily applied and were hired for on the grounds that the job requirements violate their conscience, when they knew that up front what the requirements of the job were. I believe that in such instances, the employees should either quit or get fired.
I also find it
completely unacceptable for a pharmacist who would refuse to fill a prescription to then refuse to return it so that the woman can find another pharmacy, willing to fill it. I believe that such actions should, at the very least, result in the pharmacist losing their license to practice.
We concern ourselves with reality such as RESPONSIBILITY, something you don't seem to grasp.
No. You concern yourself with enforcing your particular views on the subject at the cost of treating women as walking, talking incubators with no rights.
Your blind devotion is to people screwing without any good sense, resulting in babies that (by your cracked reasoning) either have to be dismembered in utero or given care by people who weren't responsible for their being conceived, in the first place.
Now children, as a fun exercise, try to see how many logical fallacies are in the above sentence.
