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Originally Posted by Clyde

Doctors do not have any obligation whatsoever to prescribe prescription drugs. They can do so at their own discretion and beliefs.

I have no clue about the legalities, but at least here, you have total and complete say over whether or not you go on the pill. Their job is to provide you with information about the different types of birth control there are and help you make an educated decision about what's right for you and your body.

Then again, I wasn't aware there were catholic hospitals. To me, going to a catholic hospital for birth control would be like seeing someone who believes in holistic remedies for what prescription drug might help best with what you're experiencing.

If this was a regular, run-of-the-mill doctor, she should have been given a prescription for BC. It's a doctor's job to provide it alongside education (not a lecture), not to shove their belief down someone else's throat, especially when that someone else is a legal adult. I spoke to my doctor about birth control at my university's health center, and though she asked me questions and spoke to me about my relationship at the time and relationships in general, she wasn't condescending and she wasn't about to give me a lecture and seeing as I was 18, she really had no choice but to prescribe the pill to me. But I'm assuming that there's a difference between privately owned and state funded establishments? As far as the difference in legal obligations? Not sure how that works, but my advice to the OP is to see a different doctor. You shouldn't have been turned down.