You don't see how that 1st part can be interpreted by a doctors personal belief? let's look at it again. the freedom to decline to perform, participate in, or pay for any health care service which violates the practitioner’s, institution’s, or payer’s conscience as informed by the moral, ethical, or religious beliefs.” That certainly looks like it's up to what the doctor feels ecompasses the law. How can you not get that they can deny HIV treatment?
The political add just writes itself. Now every republican has to explain how they come down on this issue.
The bolded is not the entire law. If you stick to the confines of the entire law, the doctor would have to provide HIV treatment because doctors are still responsible for providing appropriate health care services. I imagine you might find a hard-headed doctor who tries to refuse appropriate health care services to LGBT, but they would lose that battle because the entire law doesn't allow it. This law is probably heavily influenced by doctors being obligated to provide services to trans children. That is the elephant in this room. I think there are very few doctors who would feel anything about providing something like HIV treatment even to the most LGBT of LGBTs. The doctors are helping to save lives in that case. That is a fact and it is the right thing to do. But, having to provide services that will permanently affect the lives of children? I think there are plenty of doctors that would be sympathetic to LGBT people who would have some reservations about that and would like the ability to deny those types of services and be able to refer them elsewhere.
Honestly. . . . Good to know . . . I don't think I want a doctor that doesn't want to help me Seriously . . . . .I would not trust their integrity or willingness to do the most to help me. Rocket River
Does the law sanction discriminating on who get receive treatment based on their lifestyle / identity, or discriminating on the type of treatment heath care professionals are obligated to provide. I interpreted it (based on a quick glance at the wording) as the latter.
Yeah . I understand that's what the law is targeting but you know somebody will take it to the extreme. Like I said before trans people go to doctors who have a track record of treating trans so its a solution in search of a problem and the problem that's gonna be created is doctors are gonna use this law to deny basic services.
