chu chu rocket

I fail to see how it would be good for me to allow pharmacists to refuse giving my girlfriend a morning-after pill. What if there wasn't any other pharmacy around for miles? Should I then wait for market forces to kick in, and hopefully, a new pharmacy will have out competed the pharmacy with the hot spanish chick that refused to hand out pills, because of popular demand from enough poor suckers whose condom tore whilst having intercourse? Nah.

On the other hand, of course I wanna be able to discriminate if I am renting out apartments. If a pot-smoking slacker looks like he wants to set up a pharmacy lab at my condo, there ain't no way I wan't to appear before court, just because the guy happened to be hispanic, black or gay or all of that.

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chu chu rocket

I don't know. Glad I am not in that position.

Merantes

I see your point, but it often is dangerous to argue in the extremes. And there are always counter examples. Would you deny this woman's request for euthanasia?




Chantal Sebire, denied her request for euthanasia by a French court this week, was found dead Thursday.

PARIS — A woman who suffered from a painful facial tumor and had drawn headlines across France with her quest for doctor-assisted suicide was found dead Wednesday, an official said.
Chantal Sebire, a former schoolteacher and mother of three, was found at her home in the eastern French town of Plombieres-les-Dijon, a government official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
The circumstances of her death were not immediately clear. Sebire, 52, was diagnosed nearly eight years ago with esthesioneuroblastoma, a rare form of cancer.
The illness left her blind, and with no sense of smell or taste, her lawyer said. She could not use morphine to ease the intense eye pain because of the side effects.
On Monday, a court in the city of Dijon rejected Sebire's request to be allowed to receive a lethal dose of barbiturates under a doctor's supervision.
It refused the request for doctor-assisted suicide because of French law and out of concern for medical ethics.
Sebire's case revived a debate in France about the right to die. She received national attention after the media published heartbreaking before-and-after pictures that made her suffering instantly apparent.

The tumor had burrowed through her sinuses and nasal cavities, causing her nose to swell to several times its original size, and pushing one of her eyes out of her head.
Unlike in France, euthanasia is legal in both Belgium and the Netherlands, and Luxembourg is in the process of passing a law to allow it. In Switzerland, counselors or physicians can prepare the lethal dose, but patients must take it on their own.

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freckles

Could you please give those pictures in a link next time? I was eating.

In the wild, there is no healthcare. In the wild healthcare is 'Ow, I hurt my leg. I can't run. A lion eats me, and I'm dead.' Well, I'm not dead. I'm the lion. You're dead.

Stinger

Why would you want to do that. First of all religion is treated specially and specifically in the Constitution for the purpose of keeping it and government separated. Government does get to control religion through the tax system, churches get no political say in government as they are not tax paying entities. Tax the churches then they will be free to engage in politics, out right support of candidates and political parties, etc.

Why would you want to end that separation?

Let them do their thing and government do it's thing and keep them as separate as possible.

JaneDoe

All I can say.. that poor woman
I am glad her suffering is over !

maybe you'll grow a heart 1 day.. obviously ur head is...