The law allows any medical provider or insurer to deny care based on "ethical, moral, or religious beliefs."
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill legalizing anti-LGBTQ+ medical discrimination The law allows any medical provider or insurer to deny care based on "ethical, moral, or religious beliefs... LGBTQ NationThere is NOTHING "ethical" or "moral" about a medical practitioner letting someone die because they don't approve of the LGBTQ+ community.
Even doctors who work on battlefields know it is the ethically and morally correct thing to do to care for enemy soldiers who are wounded.
The Florida legislature appears to be enacting laws that are about as hateful and corrupt as Southern legislatures enacted during Jim Crow.
They are turning Florida into a dystopian society.
We cannot let DeSantis anywhere near the Oval Office or he will turn the entire nation into a far right dystopian nightmare.
“The Florida legislature appears to be enacting laws that are about as hateful and corrupt as Southern legislatures enacted during Jim Crow.”
The Republican “culture wars” focus on every hateful thing except whatever could actually help people
From the article [emphasis mine]:
The newly signed law says denial of care can’t be based on a patient’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, but it provides no protections on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Additionally, the law also allows healthcare employers to discriminate in hiring and bars medical boards from disciplining doctors for spreading misinformation, essentially forcing employers to keep workers who refuse to do their jobs, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) noted.
In a statement, the HRC said the newly signed law “creates a license to discriminate by allowing healthcare employers to discriminate in hiring, and it bars medical Boards from disciplining doctors for spreading misinformation.”
You would have to be willfully ignorant and aggressively naive to believe that Republicans won’t change any of the qualifiers at some future date. Clarence Thomas already implied that he thinks Marriage Equality should be overturned. If they’re coming for the “T” and the “Q” in LGBTQ today, you better believe they’ll be coming for the “LGB” tomorrow. And they won’t stop there.
Which is why I always find it wild when all the TERFs out there side with conservatives (knowingly or otherwise), foolishly thinking that they’re safe.
If you aren’t a wealthy, white, heterosexual, “Christian” male, then you’re fair game for Republican ChristoFascists—you are not safe.
Anyway,…
Republicans want us dead. There's no two ways about it, and nothing they can justify this level of cruelty and evil with. We do not fit into their idea of a perfect world, therefore we must be exterminated.
This is a war for our survival now. Do not be so foolish as to think it is anything but.