Right to choose.Leonard Pitts' May 2 commentary, "Prescription Should Call for Doing the Job," does not place in appropriate context the issue of whether pharmacists should be able to refuse filling prescriptions on moral grounds. In case Pitts was not aware, private businesses still have the right to choose what they sell or do not sell, regardless of reason--just as the pacifist, of any religious orientation Noun 1. religious orientation - an attitude toward religion or religious practices orientation - an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs agnosticism - a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God; "agnosticism , has the right to reject enlistment into the military. This commentary seems to support the view that until every civil right to choose is rewritten to allow only one choice, the left, Americans will be considered polarized A one-way direction of a signal or the molecules within a material pointing in one direction. , rather than individualists. Perhaps Pitts is on to something--a vegan vegan /veg·an/ (ve´gan) (vej´an) a vegetarian whose diet excludes all food of animal origin. ve·gan n. McDonalds! Let's hear it for the freedom to choose. Sherry Long Fountain Valley Fountain Valley, city (1990 pop. 53,691), Orange co., S Calif.; inc. 1957. Chiefly residential, Fountain Valley also has diverse manufactures, including apparel, computer equipment, semiconductors, and medical equipment. A U.S. navy helicopter facility is there. |
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