Are Pharmacists Better than Bus Drivers?

[ClydeR]

By law in most states, pharmacists, doctors and nurses have the right to refuse to participate in matters that violate their conscience. Employers cannot fire covered pharmacists, doctors nurses or others because they refuse to participate in matters that violate their conscience. Each pharmacist, doctor, nurse or other medical professional gets to search his (or in the case of nurses, her) own conscience to determine what procedures to refuse, and no one can question that decision.

Someone should tell the city of Des Moines that the souls of bus drivers are no less valuable than the souls of medical professionals.


On Monday, the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority suspended bus operator Angela Shiel after she refused to drive a bus with an Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers ad on its side. Shiel, 41, said the ad's message, "Don't believe in God? You are not alone," went against her Christian faith.

More... (http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090819/NEWS/908190370/-1/archive)

After reviewing the bus driver's case further, the city has given her a few "choices (http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009908200349)" that basically amount to being fired.

The law should treat everybody equally, irregardless of whether they are doctors or bus drivers.

[Makkah]

Yes. People with a degree >>> people without a degree. Question answered.

[Tsa`ah]

Depends on the state. In IL a pharmacist can't refuse to fill a script based on personal ethics/morality.

A bus driver refusing to operate public transportation due to the advertising being counter to his/her theological views is a fucking retard who shouldn't have been considered for the job in the first place.

[Geshron]

Depends on the state. In IL a pharmacist can't refuse to fill a script based on personal ethics/morality.

A bus driver refusing to operate public transportation due to the advertising being counter to his/her theological views is a fucking retard who shouldn't have been considered for the job in the first place.

This. Honestly, that is a "Hey God, look at me! See? I am righteous" move if I ever saw one which is the very root of why I can only see the literal religious as a population as laughable as good ol' Clyde here. Screw all the people who can't afford a car and take the bus to work, I got me some Jesus lovin' to do!

[ClydeR]

Depends on the state.

That is so true. According to this source (http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_RPHS.pdf) that I found on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscience_clause), 46 states have some kind of conscience law, but what is covered by the laws varies enormously from state to state.