Religion and Conscientious Objection: Pharmacists' Willingness to Dispense Medications

Davidson, Laura A.; Pettis, Clare; Joiner, Amber J.; Cook, Daniel; Klugman, Craig M.

doi:10.1037/e506052012-082

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“…These findings support what others have found, that religion and spiritual beliefs influence how nurses and health care providers in general make ethical decisions. 15,25,27 Ethical beliefs are values that nurses bring to the professional setting and are often strongly engrained from childhood. It is unrealistic to expect that nurses will ignore these belief systems when faced with ethical dilemmas.…”

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“…A study of pharmacists found that religious affiliation significantly predicted their willingness to dispense emergency contraception and medical abortifacients. 25 Similarly, a study of 4000 British physicians found that those who were not religious were almost two times more willing than physicians with devout religious beliefs to discuss treatments that hasten death with dying patients. 15 In an interview published by Nursing Standard, 26 Dr Clive Seale who conducted the above-mentioned study suggests that this same impact of religious beliefs might also influence how nurses practice.…”

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Influencers of ethical beliefs and the impact on moral distress and conscientious objection

2012

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Considering a growing nurse shortage and the need for qualified nurses to handle increasingly complex patient care situations, how ethical beliefs are influenced and the consequences that can occur when moral conflicts of right and wrong arise need to be explored. The aim of this study was to explore influencers identified by nurses as having the most impact on the development of their ethical beliefs and whether these influencers might impact levels of moral distress and the potential for conscientious objection. Nurses whose ethical beliefs were most influenced by their religious beliefs scored higher in levels of moral distress and demonstrated greater differences in areas of conscientious objection than did nurses who developed their ethical beliefs from influencers such as family values, life and work experience, political views or the professional code of ethics.

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Influencers of ethical beliefs and the impact on moral distress and conscientious objection

2012

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“…The dispensing of oral contraception may conflict with religious or personal views on sexuality and fetal rights. In one study, pharmacists were apprehensive about dispensing medical abortifacients and emergency contraception, and some believed they should have the right to refuse to dispense medications when used for indications that opposed their moral beliefs 81 . Although a 2019 review seemed to show improving access to emergency contraception, it was still unavailable in around 31% of encounters.…”

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“…Despite high rates of availability, a Colorado study showed limitations to rates of access to emergency contraception because of BTC status and proof‐of‐age requirements 83 . Other commonly refused medication classes include erectile dysfunction drugs, infertility drugs, and treatments for medically assisted suicide 81 . There is also reluctance to treat patients with opioid and other substance use disorders because of stigmatization by prescribers and pharmacists.…”

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Medication access: Policy and practice opportunities for pharmacists

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J Am Coll Clin Pharm

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Medication access is critical to achieving optimal patient outcomes. The 2020 Task Force on Medication Access was charged with developing an ACCP white paper on improving medication access that addresses barriers such as cost, health disparities, and utilization management practices. This white paper outlines major barriers to medication access and provides pharmacists and professional organizations with policy and practice recommendations to help reduce barriers, enhance medication access, and fulfill the goal of optimal patient outcomes.

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“…More recently, in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2013), the Supreme Court recognized the religious liberty interest of closely-held for-profit corporations. That decision is also likely to prove divisive as further religious liberty challenges are brought by for-profit corporations, including the minority (6 per cent) of pharmacists who object to birth control measures such as interuterine devices (Davidson et al, 2010).…”

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The Psychology of Corporate Rights

2014

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Relying on the corporate personhood doctrine, the U.S. Supreme Court has increasingly expanded the scope of rights granted to corporations and other forms of collective entities. While this trend has received widespread attention in legal scholarship and the media, there is no empirical research examining how people think about the rights of corporations. We investigated this issue in a series of three studies, each exploring a different constitutional right (religious liberty, privacy, and freedom of speech). In each study, we examined people's willingness to grant rights in several types of business contexts (i.e., a 'closely held' family business, a large national corporation, for-profit and non-for-profit companies) and to different types of targets (i.e., employees, owners, and the company as a separate entity). We also looked at whether perceptions of corporate (versus individual) rights are affected by political ideology. Our results demonstrate that people are significantly and consistently less willing to grant the same scope of protection to companies versus people, particularly if these companies are for-profit large corporations. This tendency persisted among both liberals and conservatives. We identified ideological differences in the relations between employee and company rights: these were positively related among conservatives and more conflicting among liberals. Importantly, we found some evidence that people grant rights to companies because they want to protect the rights of individuals. Taken together these results indicate that, psychologically speaking, individuals (and not corporations) are the appropriate recipients of rights.

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Religion and Conscientious Objection: Pharmacists' Willingness to Dispense Medications

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