Savage Love Episode 223
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2011
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Stranger podcast, www.com. |
| 0:05.7 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:16.1 | well, there's nothing you can't ask on Savage Lovecast. |
| 0:24.6 | We've hit a new low in what I'm calling situational pro-life ethics. |
| 0:29.8 | You may be familiar with the fact that there are pharmacists out there who feel it isn't |
| 0:33.8 | their job or don't want it to be a job or have refused to fill prescriptions |
| 0:37.9 | for the morning after pill for plan B because they disapprove of abortion and for religious |
| 0:44.9 | reasons. And there have been attempts to codify this into law, religious exceptions for certain |
| 0:49.4 | people to not have to do their jobs because they disapprove of you and yours and your bets and what you're doing with them. |
| 0:58.0 | And the drugs that you need. |
| 0:59.4 | I think that if a doctor's written you a prescription, that the pharmacist should fill your prescription without making any moral judgments and shut the fuck up and give you your drugs. |
| 1:08.1 | If they don't want to fill people's prescriptions, perhaps they |
| 1:10.8 | shouldn't be pharmacists. We've been over this before on the podcast and everywhere else. |
| 1:14.8 | And sometimes you lose your capacity to be shocked, but I am shocked. In Idaho, Idaho, God bless |
| 1:22.0 | Idaho. If Idaho didn't exist, we'd have to make it up. A nurse at a Planned Parenthood |
| 1:26.5 | office called a Walgreens pharmacist |
| 1:29.6 | to ask for a prescription for something called methagene or meathergene. I'm sure I'm mispronouncing |
| 1:35.9 | the name of this drug, which at feministing they write is a medicine used to prevent or control |
| 1:40.4 | bleeding of the uterus following childbirth or an abortion. |
| 1:45.2 | The pharmacist, who was on the phone with Planned Parenthood, refused to fill the |
| 1:51.3 | prescription until Planned Parenthood told her what it was for. |
| 1:58.7 | If it was for someone who'd just given birth, she would fill the prescription. If it was for someone who'd just given birth, |
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