Working for a public company, the pharmacist was in the wrong. He needs to take a job at a pharmacy run by a catholic hospital. Only then can he rest on his moral convictions. Being someone who runs a business based on religious and spiritual practices, I know it can be tough sometimes. However, I do not refuse service to someone because their philosophical views differ from mine. It is not my place to make their decisions for them. This is what this pharmacist was doing.

I have known young ladies who practiced abstinance and were still on "birth control" pills for other medical conditions. I know older women who take them because they had a hysterectomy for one reason or another and this is the only way to regulate their hormones effectively. His actions could have caused this woman increased pain and suffering as he did not know why the doctor prescribed them, he just assumed. While he was morally right, he was ethically wrong and should face the consequences.