'Pro-Life' Pharmacy Opens in Chantilly

what b.s.
yet another reason to move to canada.

But will the "pharmacist" pray with me for all the microscopic screams that the sperms make when they die on the cold, cold bathroom tiles? Because MASTURBATION = MURDER.

Also, YOUR MOM'S FACE = CRIMESCENE.

Peace,

+++JMJ+++

Sorry, too lazy to read the articles, but did any of the journalists find out if the pharmacy fills Viagra?

Also, as a vegetarian, I've decided to apply for a job at a meat-packing plant, and will still expect to get paid when I do absolutely nothing because that kind of work is against my religion.

You're missing the point boomhauer.

We all know all the places to get NBPs, the morning after pill, and condoms. It's the fact that we're meant to feel like we're wrong for wanting and needing them.

But again, boners rule (the world).

So who blesses the condoms and birth control pills at the other pharmacies?

If you guess "Larry Storch," you've just won a lifetime supply of Monkeyrotica Brand® Herbal Viagra ("Never a Bite in the Ballsack!")

Yay! Abortions for all!!!!

I understand if they don't want to provide RU-486, but standard contraceptives such as birth-control pills and condoms are necessary to maintaining a healthy populace, especially from STD's and unwanted pregnancies - even for married couples. If a drug store doesn't want to dispense items of that nature, they shouldn't be in the "health" business.

You're missing the point boomhauer.

We all know all the places to get NBPs, the morning after pill, and condoms. It's the fact that we're meant to feel like we're wrong for wanting and needing them.

Whoa, lrg, that's the point? That the store's existence makes you feel bad about your values?

Hate to be the lone voice of dissent here, but this store is just an example of a merchant putting his money where his mouth is. Let the market decide whether to endorse his retail morality. I once worked for a beer & wine store that refused to sell Philly's Blunts. Regardless of the obvious beer/pot double-standard, he was following his conscience, and he did quite well.

While we're on the subject, when do they plan on opening pro-death pharmacies downtown, by which I mean gun stores?

Once more, the commenters on this blog show their foolishness by advocating the absence of values and morality in society. All this from the same people who are incredulous and outraged when they read of another, poorly parented teen committing a violent crime in the streets. You fail to see the connection between how your perspectives you express here cheapen the value of life and sexuality in our society. It's quite foolish to scorn and belittle organizations and belief systems that promote responsibility and the value of human life while the evidence of the cheapening of such concerns confronts you daily.

God forbid a CATHOLIC pharmacy opens, supporting CATHOLIC theology, and refusing to sell products which go against CATHOLIC theology. If it is really that offensive to you that the Catholic church is pro-life, then go to one of the zillion other pharmacies in the area.

They still sell Viagra, however, because obviously men's reproductive health is just more important than women's health.
Obviously, it's that old men getting erections is far more important than a woman's health. Get some reasoning skills people. Condoms, birth control, and the morning-after pill are all designed to prevent life. A man who can't have an erection and uses Viagra help to achieve that erection is not preventing life, but supporting the possibility of creating life.

I'm not saying you have to agree with the Church's position, but don't act like it's some sexist issue. One of the biggest issues in the Catholic Church is supporting life. Agree or don't agree, but at least understand the difference between the two.

I agree with steaddiet,

This store is absolutely no threat in getting your Baby No-Noes or WombBrooms. It is their business model, if it works good for them, if not, oh well.

I also agree with Irq, we should ban all stores, or independent endeavors, that even slightly offend anyone. Same values good, different values bad.

Boomhauer and Geezer are on target. Boomhauer for pointing out the overwhelming alternatives to the pharmacy which bring into question even the way this article was written and Geezer for pointing out the irony that everyone seems to be missing, aside from Monkey Erotica who instead chooses to wet noodle and play it safe by making everything including his/herself a joke.

And how is offering Viagra (increasing likelihood of babies) counter to cutting out the pill (decreasing obstacles to making babies)?

Oh my god, are you really that thick, you're really not getting this?

But again, not the point. Why should women be denied the right to have a healthy sex life, and health in general, and men too in regards to condoms when they do sell Viagra, a drug purely for sex purposes...

I think that you're missing the point. Nobody is banning Plan B, condoms, or birth control pills or the ability to fuck. A obviously religious pharmacy not dispensing certain types of OTC and prescription items because of religious convictions is not impinging on your rights at all. As steadydietofbeansandrice said, let the market decide whether or not a religious-based pharmacy can work. I'm sure that any number of other pharmacies would be happy for your business.

Also, if a health sexy life is a right, who do I file a civil rights claim for the last few months?

I wonder where this location is in relation to other drug stores? Are they solely going for the "boycott all whom are godless" crowd or what? It just makes me scratch my head. What are the price comparisons? Do you get discounts if you show a bulletin from Sunday service? I don't get it.

Aaaigh!!!

I've been driving all the way out to Chantilly for all my chemical and latex family planning needs and now, now this?

Whatever shall I do? Who are these evil "Catholics" and what business do they think they have in the free market?

How dare they! They probably don't sell flame throwers, S&M gear, or Hummel figurines either. Is this America? IS THIS AMERICA?

/alarmist bullshit

So how much longer do I have to wait for a decent Muslim pharmacy where I can buy some proper female circumscision equipment, or a Mormon pharmacy where I can don't have to deal with cursed Black people?

"And how is offering Viagra (increasing likelihood of babies) counter to cutting out the pill (decreasing obstacles to making babies)?"

It's like giving someone keys to a car that goes from 0-60 in 4 seconds, but doesn't have any brakes.

IMGoph, you're right.

I'm not worked up though, I just think it's lame and don't have much to do at work.

I would like the people who have accused me of being closed minded just to try to see it from the other side is all.

Because, you know, you could go to the other 30,000 CVS, Rite-Aids, Planned Parenthoods, hospitals and other stores in the DC area to get your rubbers, birth control pills and morning after pills as opposed to the one pharmacy blessed by the Archdiocese of Arlington.

We're luck that in the D.C. area we have so many options; however in other, less densely-populated parts of the country, pharmacies like this are popping up, and it may be that a woman might have to drive excessive (and expensive) distances to obtain medically prescribed medication because some pharmacists believe that NPBs are the devil's hormone and not, y'know, a MEDICALLY PRESCRIBED MEDICATION, and a totally private matter between her and her doctor.

read up on comstock and come back to me with your "this is morals, and not sexism;" because it can, in fact, be both.

It's a free market. Requiring a private business to stock or not stock a particular product is ridiculous. If this pharmacy survives, it means that there is a market for it. If there isn't a market for it, it won't survive. Let that be the judge.

What ever happened to letting private business owners sell -- or NOT sell - whatever they damn well please?

Should the government mandate that a private bookstore in DuPont has to carry anti-gay-marriage books that run 100% counter to the owner's personal beliefs? Of course not.

Should the government mandate that a private restaurant or corner grocery sell alcoholic beverages if the owners don't want to for whatever reason? Of course not.

So why should the government mandate that private drug stores MUST carry every single Rx that has been approved by the FDA?

Just go someplace else and buy what you want. That's the beauty of the free market. It's not some assault on your civil liberties.

What ever happened to letting private business owners sell -- or NOT sell - whatever they damn well please?

I'm all in favor of that. If the pro-orphan people have their weird pharmacies that, then I want my smoking bars back. After all, it's a free market, nobody's forcing you to patronize or work at the place.

I expect soon Wal-Mart will stop dispensing AZT.

the guy running this shack is the best birth control i've seen a while. has anyone take a gander at this creep? total boner killer.

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It is easy to get upset over this, but you do have the choice not to go into those stores. The same way you can turn the channel if you don't like what you see.

Are these stores going to provide literature on abstenence and family planning and promote no premarital sex?

I can certainly see why they are selling Viagra but no BC, to create life, but if you have a 55 year old who's wife is 55, are they going to procreate? No, that is for recreation and according to the bible, he is just spilling his seed. Speaking of spilling seed, are they going to provide materials when a man does spill everywhere?

Are they also against those magazines wrapped in plastic hidden behind other men's magazines or are they only going to sell Catholic Weekly?

If they are just going to ban BC because of what the bible says, then they should also adhere to other things that would pertain to anything sexual in nature.

Some, such as lrg, talk about 'rights' and women being "denied access" to birth control. These arguments are without merit. First of all, you don't have a right to demand that a private business offer any product you desire. You don't have a right to go into Wal-Mart and get a freshly cooked, 5 course Italian dinner. If they want to serve it, fine. But they get to choose the nature of the product they offer, whereas you have the right to buy their goods or seek your demands elsewhere.

Nor is there any justification for claiming women are being "denied" access to these drugs. Are you being denied access to a new Ford because a Chevy dealership isn't selling any? Of course not.

Talking about 'rights' in this way is a dangerous endeavor, as it trivializes real rights and perpetuates the conceptualization of rights as little more than demands. Real rights, however, do not involve compelling someone else to do something, which infringes upon their rights. In other words, you cannot infringe upon the store owners right to sell what he chooses. Masking your attempt to impose your own values on someone else within the language of rights is disingenuous and completely undermines the concept of rights in a free society.

Bgarst, you are assuming that all rights are negative. Though that is a common view in this country, it is certainly not the only one. If I have a positive right to control my fertility (or, hell, use the pill for any other reason), then the government has an obligation to see to it that I have the means to do so.

Which is to build on onefemme's point - and thank you! - obviously folks in a large metro area can just go elsewhere. But what if you live in a rural area with few pharmacies? The free market is all well and good, but it's not the final moral justifier.

i think everyone agrees that it would be a different story if this were the only pharmacy for miles around. the difference is that this is one of many in the area, so the whole "you have a choice" thing comes into play, and it's not worth getting too worked up about for this instance.

Apples and oranges. Public health issues vs. beer choice. Public health is definitely a reason for government to step into private businesses affairs. Like why there's health code inspectors.

Try again.

I disagree, but OK, to keep it exclusively on public health: should all qualified doctors be required by the government to perform abortions? Of course not.

And that's not "denying" anybody any "rights." It's simply allowing free and private individuals to provide whatever goods or services they choose.

I really have no problem with them ditching birth control and rubbers, so long as people don't have to haul ass to another State to find them. If they choose to limit their inventory only to god-fearing products, that's their business model. I just find it irritating that this is yet another example of the balkanization of capitalism. I have to go to three different grocery stores to buy all the $h!t I need (the veggies suck at Giant, the meat sucks at Safeway, the service sucks EVERYWHERE). So they're squeamish that someone, somewhere is getting laid (or thinks they will; joke's on them, though). What's next? No tampons because they're "Satan's cottony little fingers?" No KY or Vaseline or freaking Hawaiian Tropic Suntan Butter, because some teenager might slather it all over a Ban Roll-On Deodorant container and shove it up their ass while thinking of their gym teacher? It's a slippery slope, and good luck finding any KY to help you going down that slope. Nope. It's rugburn for you Mr. I'm All Out of Wesson Salad Oil. Now go back to church and think about what you did in the holy water dispenser.

So many of the comments here are made without any understanding of Catholic belief. You will never understand Catholic teaching unless you know Jesus. Those whose lives have been transformed by Him come to understand the teachings of the Church.
As regards women's health not being important, the reality is that the Catholic position is pro women's health, not anti. Drug companies and many doctors fail to inform women of the serious risks to their health of long-term use of the contraceptive pill for example. These include a possible link with breast cancer and increased risk of heart attacks/strokes etc. Who is really pro-woman?
The commentators who related the general decline of western society, family breakdown, violence, etc, to our devaluation of the sacred, YES SACRED, nature of human sexual relations are right, I believe.

Birth control = picture of pope next to bed.