Comments on: Calif.: Docs Can't Deny Care To Lesbians

Top Court Rules Doctors Can't Invoke Moral Objections To Refuse Treatment To Gays, Lesbians

[wireferee]

minnick8, you said you could spot a lesbian from "a mile away." How exactly do you do that? What does one look like? Are all lesbians the same? Do they have a neon sign above their heads?

Can you do the same for French people? Deaf people? People with AIDS?

[wireferee]

minnick8 your comment is why this lawsuit and its UNANIMOUS decision was necessary. Personally, I say that if we lose a doctor to another country because he or she only wants to heal and work with certain people, good riddance!

Besides, take this one step further. If the doctors were allowed to deny this procedure due to religious exemptions, would it be okay for him/her to deny life-saving medical treatment to a gay or lesbian? Would it be right to deny a pregnant woman a C-section because God said that women need to "bear the pain of childbirth"? Would it be okay for an Muslim doctor to deny treatment to a Christian American because Christians and Americans don''t "jive" with his religion?

If you allow doctors to pick and choose who they treat and what procedures they do, where does it stop?

[minnick8-2009]

To the men in here who are volunteering to provide stud services so that artificial insemination isn''t necessary, don''t forget that in today''s legal climate, DNA fathers are liable for support of their children. If you provide stud services, you better be prepared to send your money to support the child/children that you sire.

[minnick8-2009]

How, exactly, does a doctor recognize a lesbian patient if she does not disclose the fact . . . ?

Posted by barbaraf4

Honey, you have lived with your head in the sand. I was in the military and it didn''t take long before I could spot one from a mile away.

[minnick8-2009]

We sure have a s c r * w * d up society. It is lawsuits like the one described herein that will cause intelligent young people who would otherwise choose medicine as a career to make another choice if they really are opposed to providing arificial insemination to l e s b i a n s and they don''t want to because of moral objections. No one likes to be told who they must serve. Services in hotels and restaurants are not the same as artificial insemination. There are plenty of doctors out there who are not opposed and I like seafang''s response, "why are they (the l e s b i a n s) hassling Drs. whose services they don''t need?"

[redperimeter]

FYI to deepperppl. You quote Jesus authoritatively. Lest you forget His admonition was: "Go. Your sins are forgiven. Sin no more!"

[barbaraf4]

How, exactly, does a doctor recognize a lesbian patient if she does not disclose the fact. Do lesbians have rainbow-colored pu*bic hair?

[myopinion381]

Seafang: Why is it any different for a lesbian woman to seek a doctor to be artifically inseminated than a woman that can''t concieve on their own?

[justicelane]

What happened to observing the Hipocratic Oath? Religion has NOTHING to do with it. They are sworn to treat EVERYONE regardless of faith when they get their license.

[andy4488]

To Terrapin78, spoken like a true gay person. Like the artical said, she was instructed how to do it herself and was also directed to a Dr. without moral objections,and there''s plenty of them out there, she got the job done so what''s the beef.
It''s the gay agenda not to just get it done but to force someone with moral objections to do it. That''s the whole thing with this emoral gay agenda movement. It''s not just to get rights for the *** but to take away the rights of moral Christian people.

[deepperppl]

I''ve thought people who turn down helping others because of their sexual preference aren''t doing their religion any favors. Think about it: When Jesus healed people, did He care what their sins were? Didn''t He tell the high and mighty that the Son of Man came to those who are living in sin? I''m a Christian, but even I know that Jesus didn''t discriminate. If you were in need, you were heard. And if you take on a job where you *know* you will be called on to do something to which you object on a moral or religious basis, then don''t seek that career. It''s like being a soldier. If you join up in peace, you may still have to be called to war. It''s your job, for goodness'' sake!! Just do it.

[seafang]

Well I''m on the doctor''s side. They should not be required to waste their time to provide "medical treatment" to someone who has no "medical problem".

Maybe they have a mental problem but they certainly don''t have any medical problem.

If they read even the most elementary medical text books, they would find that you can''t get pregnant by playing matress polo with someone who doesn''t have the proper equipment to get the job done.
These lesbians can easily get pregnant if they just read an elentary text on s.e.x.u.a.l i.n.t.e.r.c.o.u.r.s.e; so why are they hassling the doctors; whose services they don''t need since doctors are not in the stud farm business.

[myopinion381]

deacon20081: Would make more sense to deny everyone welfare. Make people go out and work for a living.

[deacon20081]

If Lesbians want to have children they should be denied Welfare.

[redhoffer]

Dan, there is a group called Fathers for Equal Rights that you should check out.

Please though, you can''t blame the problems that the courts sometimes invoke on men in family and custody issues on queers. It''s just dumb. Queers get horribly treated by society and courts at a far greater extent than men. You are out of your mind if you feel queers get treated better or are more protected than men, that''s typical right-wing media crrap.

Btw, this is not 1980, men do get fairly decent treatment in family court now.

[Wookiee-1138]

WWHD?

What would Hippocrates do?

[ragnar30066]

Why not deny medical care to lesbians? Or straights? Or senior citizens? Or firemen?

We have a presidential candidate who has voted on the record that babies who have lived in spite of an attempted abortion should be denied medical care until they die. He is trying to lie his way out of it now, but the public record of his votes have him completely trapped.

So why should lesbians, straights, seniors or anyone else be spared? What do you think, that people have inalienable rights to life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness? That all should be equally protected by the law? Such antiquated notions. Obama will help you discard such antiquated thoughts and lead the Change to the new way of looking at life, where a person''s life is based upon politics.

[myopinion381]

A doctor shouldn''t choose to treat or not treat a person because of religious beliefs.

[dan9111]

"It was very painful %u2014 the fact that you have someone telling you they will not help you because of who you are, that they will deny your right to be a mother and have a family."

Worse is the pain as watching your father get kicked out of the family, and seeing him milked out of cash while his right to be a father is denied by an abusive mother. That is discriminiation because of "who he is".

Justice is long overdue for men. We learn today that every single lesbian, without regard for examining her past, has more rights than even the most caring man. Where is the ACLU?

[terrapin78]

IMO any Doctor and or Pharmacist that injects their "moral beliefs" into a patients treatment should lose their license to practice.

If and Dr/Pram feels like that, they should go get jobs in religious hospitals and stay out of the secular health care world.