there are reports of pharmacists who won't dispense mental-health-related medication, for instance.

Can you point me to information about this? I'd like to know which pharmacies are letting this happen.

I'd have to google to find it, so you might have just as much luck as I would doing a search. But let me know if you don't find it.

Unrelated to pharmacies:

Stephanie, I am *totally* buying your coffee for people for Xmas! I have coffee hounds in my family, and they'll be thrilled to get it.

t edit What's the shipping time like? I didn't see that on the website.

woo hoo - I'm thrilled to hear it!

eta: see - this is why we are testing. :) We are using USPS so probably 2-3 days depending on where we are shipping to. It will probably take us just 1 day to get the coffee in the mail.

Stephanie, I just went over to the site myself -- very cool! What a great idea. Fingers crossed it works out really well!

Fingers definitely crossed for you, Stephanie.

Heya. I have Dry Eye, lucky me. Starting to feel a bit beaten down, yessirree.

eta: see - this is why we are testing. :) We are using USPS so probably 2-3 days depending on where we are shipping to. It will probably take us just 1 day to get the coffee in the mail.

Oh, excellent. I think I'll wait until next week, then, so it's nice and fresh, but also not a time crunch the week of Xmas.

If a patient in my Ob/Gyn's practice needs an abortion she'll get one. If there is a doctor there who doesn't perform them s/he has worked this out with the other doctors in the practice and doesn't get up in any patients' faces about it. I see nothing wrong with this.

If a pharmacy does the same thing its an internal matter and none of my business.

They're sending me Angel and The Areas of My Expertise

I need to order The Areas of My Expertise for DH for Christmas. He'll love the stuff on Hobos.

I'm pretty sure the first OB/GYN practice I found where we used to live didn't perform abortions *and* didn't refer, because the hospital they were affiliated with was Catholic.

I know a woman who delivered at a Catholic hospital here and didn't realize she couldn't get a tubal ligation done after her last child. We have a practice here in town that doesn't prescribe BC at all but I don't know if they're all Catholic doctors.

I think medical students who specialize in OB/gyn can opt out of learning to perform abortions if it clashes with their beliefs.

I know pharmacists have to learn about the drugs and their interactions. It's not an easy job by any means but they make a SHIT TON of money for counting pills and filling bottles.

Part of what makes me so angry about the whole issue of pharmacists refusing to fill scripts (more specifically confiscating or tearing up scripts for BC, EC or Valtrex) is that their righteous indignation is often only directed at women. Do those same pharmacists refuse to fill scripts for Viagra? Or do they check and see if the man getting the little blue pills is married? What if he's cheating on his wife?

It's none of their fucking business. Dispense the pills and be done with it.

Part of what makes me so angry about the whole issue of pharmacists refusing to fill scripts (more specifically confiscating or tearing up scripts for BC, EC or Valtrex) is that their righteous indignation is often only directed at women. Do those same pharmacists refuse to fill scripts for Viagra? Or do they check and see if the man getting the little blue pills is married? What if he's cheating on his wife?

Standing in Cash's corner.

Just saw the coffee link. Good luck, Stephanie--I hope it's a raging success!