When will firefighters, paramedics, ambulances, doctors NOT have to help

[LynnTheDem]

you if they are "OFFENDED" by your eye color, height, gender, sexual preferances, age, religion???

Pharmacists don't have to fill your legal doctor-issued prescriptions if they are "OFFENDED"...surely firefighters shouldn't have to rescue people they find "OFFENSIVE"...

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. I'm trying to figure out why someone who finds some forms of

medical treatments offensive or immoral would become a pharmacist. But I'll admit I'm not thinking terribly objectively about this right now.

[LisaLynne]

2. Always been my take.

But, yes, I also have a hard time staying objective. I see that as just another step towards getting rid of all birth control, which isn't even the ultimate goal. So, any step in that direction is going to be fought by me.

[lectrobyte]

3. Control. Always about control. But could there be more to it than that?

I personally don't like to drag in Nazi Germany, but if the shoe fits:

One of the earliest laws passed by Hitler once he came to power in 1933, was the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage. This law stated that all newly married couples would get a government loan of 1000 marks which was about 9 months average income. 800,000 newly weds took up this offer. This loan was not to be simply paid back. The birth of one child meant that 25% of the loan did not have to be paid back. Two children meant that 50% of the loan need not be paid back. Four children meant that the entire loan was cleared.

The aim of the law was very simple - to encourage newly weds to have as many children as they could. There was also a more long term and sinister aspect to this : as Germany grew she would need more soldiers and mothers; hence a booming population was needed with young boys being groomed into being soldiers and young girls being groomed into being young mothers. If "lebensraum" was to be carried out, Hitler needed the population to fill the spaces gained in the eastern Europe.

[billyoc]

4. There must be some legal recourse to fight this nonsense.

Don't pharmacists have to get some kind of license? What about the licensing boards in individual states?