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Letters to the Editor
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Emergency contraception
Two causes for concern
From Mr A. Paxton, MRPharmS
Two articles in The Pharmaceutical Journal of 29 April gave me cause for concern.
The first was the piece by Onlooker entitled “Dealing
with moral objections to the dispensing of particular drugs” (p510). It is simplistic, and
an insult to the intelligence of pharmacists with a conscientious objection
to the taking of human life, to suggest that “automated delivery systems
might be used to overcome the moral aspect”. My problem with emergency
hormonal contraception, as with abortion and euthanasia, is not that I am
unwilling to commit it, but that no one — doctor, judge or concentration
camp operator — should do it. Any attempt to step back and delegate
it is completely off the point.
The second was the new item entitled “EHC
supply stance loses Tesco a pharmacy contract” (p493). Even although Tesco was willing to provide
EHC, because it would not provide it for children under the age of 16, the
primary care trust refused it a pharmacy contract. Since when has it been
the responsibility of a PCT to force professionals to ignore their consciences?
Andrew Paxton
Lancaster
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