In a growing trend, pharmacists across the country are refusing to fill prescriptions of hormonal contraceptives, according to articles recently released by The Washington Post and Prevention.com. Pharmacists participating in the trend claim that the medication violates their personal moral and religious beliefs.

Whether or not pharmacists believe they are promoting morality by pushing their sacred beliefs upon their patrons, it obviously wasn’t in their job description.

However, it’s hard to convince people that what they’re doing is wrong because they use religious fervor instead of reason.

I am not condemning religion in any such way or form, only impractical religious people.

At the heart of this anti-pill debate might be a legitimate cause, but it is overshadowed by religious friction.

Unless they plan on converting the users of birth control, who have made the conscious decision to use the drug, they will have a limited amount of impact on the use of birth control. Aside from having little respect for the public’s personal freedom, much to the dismay of these religious pharmacists money is the bottom line in any business.

When a number of outraged pharmacists stop doing their jobs in the name of religion, health care companies might just do a bit of “downsizing.”

No matter what their cause is, corporate America will inevitably destroy it.

The anti-pill debate might hold a candle to anti-abortion causes, that are capable of making waves, if it didn’t surround the post-fertilization issue – whether or not unfertilized eggs have human rights.

Confronted with this, most people don’t find the use in fighting for the rights of embryonic tissue. Frankly, neither do I, it’s pointless to preserve life when there isn’t any. Abortion is more serious.

The morning after pill prevents ovulation if fertilization has occurred. I consider it to be an abortion in the form of a capsule simply because it causes the woman’s body to shed the already fertilized egg.

In spite of subjecting myself to religious controversy, I have Lutheran based ethics. Naturally, I think abortion is a very debauch form of murder, but I have always thought of birth control as a means of preventing abortion.