“Partial birth abortion makes up a tiny fraction…”

Who cares? It shouldn’t happen at all.

“and are only performed when the mother’s health is at risk.”

Oh, so that’s why they crack the back of the child’s head open like an eggshell as it comes out, or stab it in the head with scissors as it makes its way from the womb. Because they can’t save the mother any other way than that, even with all the “genius” biologists we have.

“forcing other students to along with sectarian prayers…”

You’ll have to look up forced in the dictionary for deranged evolutionists I guess. Leading a prayer in school does not force anyone to pray. You pray along if you want to. What students are forced to do is TOLERATE it, the same way we Christians are forced to tolerate everyone else’s nonsense. Tolerate is a word liberals like to use yet never practice. There is nothing in the law preventing a student from leading prayer in school or doing an altar call even. There is law (the Constitution) that says the government (which includes government funded establishments like the DEP) cannot trample someone’s religious expression.

As I said before, this could all be solved by yanking the funding from the DEP, which never should have been there.

It certainly isn’t a kid at a graduation ceremony expressing their religion. If you don’t like it, don’t listen. Put your fingers in your ears.

If someone wants to pray on his or her own in school, and can do so without disrupting anything, that’s fine. But forcing other students to go along with sectarian prayers being “led” by someone else is a clear violation of *their* religious freedom.

A moment of silence to so with as students wish is fine. A group chant to specifically give thanks to Yahweh, God, Allah, Thor or Shiva is not.

“Btwl, abortion can happen 2 months after conception. Ever heard of partial birth abortion?”

I hope you don’t think that an abortion performed at 2 months’ gestation is a partial-birth abortion, but given your whimsical ideas about various aspects of biological science, you probably do.

Partial-birth abortions make up a tiny fraction of all elective abortions and are only performed when the mother’s health is at risk. The hysterical anti-abortion crowd naturally ignores this, along with the fact that about 9 in 10 abortions are performed in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.

Btwl, abortion can happen 2 months after conception. Ever heard of partial birth abortion?

Something tells me pharmacists are well aware of OCP before gaining licensure and seeking employment. The bottom line is that if someone’s conscience runs afoul of the law, it’s not the law that has the problem.

I particularly enjoy the ‘abortion stops a beating heart bumper stickers’, even though the heart isn’t formed for at least 9 weeks. That’s 2+ months into the pregnancy.

Anyhow, decent post with the exception of the phrasing “expression of religion” referred to many times. The first amendment says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Is preventing someone from leading a prayer at a high school graduation preventing them from excercising their religion? How would the removal of the ten commandments affect the free exercise of anyone’s religion? What does free mean? You can do it anywhere? Sex is legal, but you can’t do it anywhere…

A company cannot force an employee to come in on Sunday, for instance, if their religion prohibits it, yes. If they are hiring for a position that requires Sunday work and don’t hire someone because they can’t work that day, it’s valid.

However, providing death pills to kill babies is a far cry from scheduling.

Try to convince any court in the United States (excluding Texas, I suppose) that asking a religiously pro-life pharmacist to perform his or her job as plainly spelled out in company policy — and sanctioning hiom or her as a result of failing to do so — is “illegal discrimination.”

What about people whose religion forbids them to work on Mondays? If they take a nine-to-five and then refuse to come to work on Mondays, and wind up getting canned as a result, is this also illegal discrimination? Please.

There are thousands of perscriptions that pharmacists fill. We’re talking about maybe 3. Hamstrung is a little excessive.