Human
Life International (Ireland) (HLII) have announced in a press release that an unprecedented survey will arrive
in EVERY pharmacy in Ireland North and South on Thursday December 12th.
The morning after pill and
abortifacients are chemical warfare on unborn children and this survey aims to
map which pharmacies do not dispense these deadly drugs.
Of
the 14,000 supporters on Human Life International’s database, many have pledged
to travel long distances to patron pharmacies which do not deal in these drugs. HLII are constantly asked if they know
of even one pharmacy in the country which doesn’t deal in these abortifacients
so they decided to do something about it.
The
pharmacy mailing, funded by supporters of HLII includes the testimonies of three pharmacists who ceased
dispensing these drugs on consciencious grounds.
According
to the statement HLII are inviting pharmacists who have ethical qualms about
dispensing abortifacients to contact them – confidentially if they wish.
HLII
Executive Director, Patrick McCrystal, is a pharmacist who paid a heavy price
of unemployment for 3 years for refusing to dispense them.
We
plan to inform our supporters of the results of this survey for THEIR local
area.
Pharmacists
and other healthcare professional are invited to view a special dedicated website www.positivepharmacy.org for scientific and ethical
perspectives.
More
information: Rep of Ireland 094 93
75993 N. Ireland
02890
90923357
Human Life International (Ireland), Guadalupe Centre,
Main Street, Knock. Co. Mayo.Upholding and defending
Life, Faith and Family
TESTIMONIES
Pharmacist
stops dispensing abortifacients
By Patrick
McCrystal M.P.S.I/ BSc Pharmacy
(QUB)
I ceased dispensing contraceptive pills and so-called “morning-after” pills in
1993. How could I as a healthcare professional promote health and prolong life with integrity whilst dispensing
drugs that terminated human life?
When a woman who has conceived presented in my pharmacy, I had a duty of
care to two patients, not one.
I knew human life was sacred from the moment of
conception. I knew that if I
consented to dispensing a drug with an implicit abortifacient mechanism, I was
complicit on an attack on a fellow human being.
It was a very difficult decision-making
time, with very few I could really talk to. Then I discovered “Pharmacists For Life International” based
in U.S.A. What a relief to
discover that somewhere in the world there were pharmacists defending human
life in this manner. When I eventually
ceased dispensing contraceptive products in 1993, I was subsequently unemployed
for three years, despite attending about 30 interviews in North and South
Ireland.
The pharmacy magazine “Chemist and Druggist” carried my two
page article “What Kind of Prescription?” highlighting the pharmacists ethical dilemma of
dispensing abortifacients in 1994. The Scottish Pharmacist Association invited
me to debate the MAP at their annual conference in 1995, a debate I won.
It wasn’t good enough when people said to
me: “You can’t impose your morality on
others.” By continuing
to dispense these drugs against my increasingly uneasy conscience, I was
letting others morality be imposed on me.
In a statement to Catholic Italian
pharmacists, Pope John Paul II said: “One
cannot accept being party to attacks on life…or on procreation.”(1993).
In 1995, he made the dramatic statement “Whoever attacks human life in some way attacks
God himself” (Evangelium Vitae ; The Gospel of Life)
The idea of coming before God at the
judgment at the end of my life and discovering that through my dispensing of
abortifacients I had in some way attacked God was something I simply couldn’t
do. It was then I wrote my first book: Contraception and Evangelium Vitae, highlighting the clinical
evidence for the abortifacient nature of contraceptive pills and drugs.
About the same time I discovered the
statistics revealing that the distribution of contraception actually increases
the abortion rate not reduces it. Even
Family Planning Agencies know that.
As someone deeply opposed to abortion, by my dispensing contraception as
a pharmacist, I now realised I was party to fuelling the abortion crisis, not
reducing it.
Now I am working with to inform the general
public of ALL the facts before they make up their mind on contraception. My most recent book “Who’s at the
Centre of your marriage…the Pill or Jesus Christ?” highlights contraception’s
disintegrating effect on marital harmony.
We have all been shocked by the reports of
chemical attacks on children in Syria.
Abortifacient products are nothing less that chemical attack on children
in the womb.
Caroline Hubert, Pharmacist
testimony
In 1988 I registered as a pharmacist in the UK.
In 1994, I became uneasy about supplying what I then understood to be
‘abortifacient’ contraceptive devices and medications. At the time I believed
that the ‘morning after pill’ and IUD were the only such ‘culprits’.
As I prayerfully considered the spiritual implications of supplying
these products, I became increasingly convicted that my role in authorising their
supply was a significant compromise of my own moral integrity.
My personal research into the actions of these products revealed to me
that even before the implantation of the early embryo, human life is well
under-way. What implants in the womb days after conception is not simply one
‘fertilised egg-cell’ but a developing ‘blastocyst’ consisting already of many
cells.
Discovering that somehow impacted me. At that point I made a decision to
stop supplying the MAP and IUD as I could no longer in conscience provide a
product which I understood would destroy a human life – even at the earliest
stage of development. Scripture is clear - ‘Thou shalt not kill’.
On that same day I came
accross an article written by Patrick McCrystal in our UK trade magazine ‘The
Chemist and Druggist’. This article exposed some uncomfortable new information.
This researcher concluded that in fact all oral ‘contraceptive’ drugs and
devices have an intrinsic abortifacient potential. One particular quote
particularly challenged me. It is apparent that with COC pills which are least
likely to have an abortifacient action, there was a possibility in one year in
the USA for 12 million users to have up to 5 million chemical abortions!
I then realised the enormity of the decision which lay before me.
As a
pharmacist I liked to provide a good service and to give customers satisfaction.
Taking a decision to refuse to supply such prescription items could invite much
hostility. I prayed at length about my response feeling very fearful of the
potential consequences. After 3 months of wrestling with the issue I finally stopped
supplying any products with an intrinsic abortifacient potential. I was employed as a pharmacy manager by
a chain of pharmacies in the south of England.
My company accepted my position as a conviction of conscience and I
continued to work at this branch for the next 10 years until I left to
accommodate the needs of my own growing family of 8 children. Interestingly and
unexpectedly the prescription business prospered during this time.
Human Life International Ireland (HLII) came under attack in
the pharmacist’s magazine, the ‘Irish Pharmacist’, following its recent survey
of Irish Pharmacies on the issue of dispensing abortifacients such as the
morning after pill. 
