Cristina Alarcon

Cristina Alarcon is a community pharmacist living
and working in Vancouver. She is a clinical instructor of
pharmacy practice for the faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia,
and holds a masters in Bioethics from the University of Navarre, Spain.

The second of six children,she was born in
Madrid, Spain, immigrated to Canada with her family at the age of seven,
and grew up in Ottawa, Montreal, and Vancouver. Passionate
about her work, Cristina has spoken out in the media and written in
defense of human life and the rights of conscience for healthcare
professionals. She has 22 lovely nieces and nephews.

Emergency plan overturned

Cristina Alarcon | 6 Jun 2011

An Illinois court has struck down a 2005 measure that would force pharmacists to provide the morning after pill.

A tough call

Cristina Alarcon | 12 Feb 2011

Does conscience protection excuse a health professional from providing after-abortion care?

An ecological blind spot

Cristina Alarcon | 16 Nov 2010

Contraceptives are polluting women's bodies and the environment, but who cares?

Suicide is not an option, ever

Cristina Alarcon | 21 Oct 2010

Those who believe that legal assisted suicide and euthanasia will assure their "choice" are naive.

'We insist: leave your conscience at the door'

Cristina Alarcon | 20 Aug 2010

Pharmacists dispense advice to a colleague who will not sell the morning after pill.

Plan C, for conscience

Cristina Alarcon | 19 Jul 2010

One American state has thought better of its policy to browbeat pharmacists into selling the morning after pill.

Softened up for death

Cristina Alarcon | 22 Sep 2009

Could our persistent search for a hardship-free world be blinding us to the value of suffering?

Professionals or automatons?

Cristina Alarcon | 15 Apr 2009

Should pharmacists have the right to act according to their consciences, or are they prescription-filling robots?

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