Pharmacist refuses medicine to help woman complete a recent miscarriage citing religious reasons
A woman in Michigan was left heartbroken when a pharmacist, owing to his religious beliefs, outright refused to give her a prescription that would have helped her complete a miscarriage. 35-year-old Rachel Peterson was grieving the fact that she lost her unborn twins when she was pregnant in July and she chose to take the prescribed misoprostol to help her uterus discharge the fetal tissue so that it could prevent any lethal infections.
After she consulted a doctor, she and her husband Robby went to the Meijer pharmacy in Petoskey, Michigan, when they came across a pharmacist who refused to give her the prescribed medication.
The devastated woman told the Detroit Free Press: "He said that he was a good Catholic male and that he couldn't in good conscience give me this medication because it's used for abortions, and he could not prescribe that. When I divulged to him that the fetus was no longer viable, and that I needed to progress the situation further, he said, 'Well, that's your word and I don't believe you,' and he refused to fill it."
