{"id":123,"date":"2004-11-10T16:44:04","date_gmt":"2004-11-11T00:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/the-proverbial-straw\/"},"modified":"2004-11-10T16:44:04","modified_gmt":"2004-11-11T00:44:04","slug":"the-proverbial-straw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/the-proverbial-straw\/","title":{"rendered":"The proverbial straw"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was listening to Howard Stern this morning just before I got to work when he mentioned a USA Today article<\/a> about pharmacists refusing to fill birth control prescriptions for religious reasons. DazeReader has a bunch of related stuff<\/a> today (unfortunately I can’t link directly to the post). <\/p>\n

I don’t have time right now to write a decent post about this, so I’ll use abbreviated profanity. WTF? No word in the article about what CVS thinks about the possibility of losing a bunch of business because of this. Are we now going to have to have pharmacies for those who believe in birth control and those who don’t? I think everyone should vote with their wallet. I’m not going to patronize a pharmacy whose pharmacist decides not to sell me something based on their own morals. They’re entitled to them, but if it’s going to make a hassle for me to fill a fucking prescription, then that’s not right. If they don’t want to do it, then find another fucking job.<\/p>\n

Beyond just the inconvenience of it all, where is this going to lead? I’m married with two kids. As of now, my wife and I have made the decision not to have any more kids. The reasons for making such a decision are personal and unique to each family. Is that pharmacist going to raise and provide for the extra kids that I have because I can’t get birth control? Some of the women in the article missed days because of the pharmacists decision. They could end up pregnant. It only takes one day. Damn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was listening to Howard Stern this morning just before I got to work when he mentioned a USA Today article about pharmacists refusing to fill birth control prescriptions for religious reasons. DazeReader has a bunch of related stuff today (unfortunately I can’t link directly to the post). I don’t have time right now to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-2-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-1Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}