From the files of
"That's a law?" comes a story out of Milledgeville, GA. Brittany Cartrett had recently received the sad news that five weeks into
her pregnancy she had miscarried.
"So we made the decision to not do a D&C and to get a
medicine. So he said I'm going to give you this medicine, you'll take
it, and it will help you to pass naturally so that you don't have to go
the more invasive route", said Brittany Cartrett.
The doctor's office called the Milledgeville Walmart to fill the
prescription but they were told no and they were not given a reason.
They found another place to fill that prescription but when Cartrett
went to the original Walmart pharmacy to get another prescription she
had there, she asked the pharmacist:
"So we found another place to fill it but I still had to go
up there to get another prescription so when I went up there she asked
if I had any questions about this prescription I said no I don't but I
do have a question about the other one. And she looks at my name and she
says oh, well...I couldn't think of a valid reason why you would need
this prescription", Cartrett said.
Pretty amazing, right? The pharmacist gets to veto the doctor. Unfortunately, this is the harsh reality of
"refusal clauses," sometimes euphemistically called "conscience clauses."
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