Holy Father Urges Pharmacists to Reject the Abortion Pill - Updated

Pharmacists must be allowed to refuse to supply drugs that cause abortion or euthanasia, Pope Benedict said today, calling on health professionals to be "conscientious objectors" against such practices.

Pope Benedict XVI told a convention of Roman Catholic pharmacists this morning that part of their job is to protect human life from conception until natural death -- the Church teaching that rules out any deliberate termination of pregnancy or euthanasia.

"It is not possible to anaesthetise the conscience, for example, when it comes to molecules whose aim is to stop an embryo implanting or to cut short someone's life," the Pope said.

The so-called abortion pill, which is available in many European Union countries and has had regulatory approval in the United States since 2000, has not been authorized in Italy.

The Vatican has criticized moves by some Italian politicians who favor the pill, which blocks the action of the hormone progesterone that is needed to sustain a pregnancy.

The Pope told the international gathering that individual pharmacists could always choose not to prescribe such a drug.

"I invite your federation to consider conscientious objection which is a right that must be recognized for your profession so you can avoid collaborating, directly or indirectly, in the supply of products which have clearly immoral aims, for example abortion or euthanasia," he said.

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Update: Pharmacists Agree With Pope

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  1. There will be more people losing their jobs because of satan being in charge of our government.

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  2. They already are. The ones I am aware of are the four pharmacists in IL who lost their jobs at Walgreens a couple of years ago for refusing to fill the Morning After Pill. Also, in Denton, Texas, the Eckerd Corporation, the owner of the Eckerd Pharmacy chain, fired three pharmacists six days after they refused to fill prescriptions for the abortifacient Morning After Pill. This happened in 2005.

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