Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Benedict on Pharmacists
As I've written elsewhere, I'm skeptical about whether a pharmacist should be legally empowered to invoke a right of conscience against her employer. I fear that such a right might short-circuit the possibility of a moral marketplace and the potential for pharmacies to operate as a sort of mediating structure. The marketplace approach has plenty of critics, of course, and I welcome the challenges they present, though I'm given pause by the fact that the critics now apparently include Pope Benedict.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2007/10/benedict-on-pha.html