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Which Is the Best Standard-Form Representation of the Following Argument

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Which is the best standard-form representation of the following Argument from Analogy?
Some pharmacists have moral objections to the use of birth control, and further believe that because of those moral objections, it is morally permissible for them to refuse to fill birth control prescriptions. Regardless of their moral objections, I believe these pharmacists have a duty to fill birth control prescriptions.
Think about it this way. Many vegetarian pharmacists have moral objections to medications that were tested on animals. These vegetarian pharmacists still have a moral obligation to fill prescriptions for patients, whether or not the prescriptions they are filling were tested on animals. Pharmacists who object to birth control have a moral obligation to fill those prescriptions for the same reason.


A) 1) Vegetarian pharmacists have an obligation to fill prescriptions for drugs tested on animals.
2) Drugs tested on animals are relevantly similar to birth control. Therefore, religious pharmacists who object to birth control have a moral obligation to fill prescriptions for it.
B) 1) Vegetarian pharmacists who object to animal testing have a moral obligation to fill prescriptions that were tested on animals.
2) Religious pharmacists who object to birth control are relevantly similar to vegetarian pharmacists who object to animal research.
Therefore, religious pharmacists who object to birth control have a moral obligation to fill prescriptions for it.
C) 1) Everyone has a moral obligation to do their jobs.
2) The job of pharmacists is to fill prescriptions.
Therefore, religious pharmacists have a moral obligation to fill prescriptions, even for birth control.
D) 1) Religious pharmacists have a moral obligation to fill prescriptions for birth control.
2) Religious pharmacists who object to birth control are relevantly similar to vegetarian pharmacists who object to animal research.
Therefore, vegetarian pharmacists who object to animal testing have a moral obligation to fill prescriptions that were tested on animals.

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