Quote:
Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
So if you have a medical emergency, you're okay with the doctor saying "sorry but you offend me, my god is against [insert some feature you have, such as eye color or height] so you'll just have to leave the hospital now. You are not welcome here."
|
Yeah……not true. The bill (
link) includes: “ (6)REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY MEDICAL TREATMENT.
This section may not be construed to override any requirement to provide emergency medical treatment in accordance with state law or the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, 42 U.S.C. s. 1395dd.”
Based upon reading this bill, it would appear to provide protection from HAVING to conduct gender altering surgery on minors for example, or HAVING to abort a fetus regardless of the period of gestation if there is a conscious based objection to those procedures.
The bill provides requirements for a health care provider’s notice and documentation of such objection; requiring health care providers to notify patients or potential patients seeking a specific health care service of any such objection BEFORE scheduling an appointment.
If the procedures are necessary due to a MEDICAL EMERGENCY, then circle back to the medical emergency requirement.
There will be those in the medical field who do not have a conscious objection and will perform such procedures since this bill does NOT BAN the procedures.
I remember a commercial when I was a kid about RIF. Remember it? RIF = Reading is Fundamental