State Senate passes bill allowing doctors to refuse care for moral or ethical reasons

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6. They tried to do similar in Kansas. It made it through the teabagger house, the teabagger governor

would have surely signed it ... What blocked it was the democratic senate, now gone with the 2012 elections, and the entire state has a rightwing teabagger government courtesy of the Koch Brothers.

If it comes up again in Kansas, and I'm sure it will, it will get passed with flying colors.

Also, in Kansas, they voted to keep LGBT a criminal offense.

Lovely place.



The Governor of Brownbackistan, Sam Brownback. http://brownbackistan.wordpress.com/

HOUSE APPROVES: Does Kansas Law Legalize Discrimination?

NOTE: This even includes the right to refuse medical treatment if one thought the patient did not agree with their religious beliefs or somehow violated their religious beliefs / freedom of religion.

http://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2012/03/29/house-approves-kansas-law-legalize-discrimination

Kansas lawmakers voted overwhelmingly today to pass a bill that opponents say legalizes discrimination against gays and lesbians.

Members of both parties joined together in the House on the 89-27 vote, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. If the Senate follows suit and Governor Sam Brownback signs the bill, as he has indicted, then anyone could opt out of anti-discrimination laws that protect gays and lesbians by claiming they violate their "religious freedom."

For example, an employer could fire someone if they discovered the employee was gay. Or a landlord could kick a renter out of their home. The religious exemption extends past places of business to universities, where students or instructors could opt out of a school's anti-discrimination policy.

The idea for the bill, called the "Kansas Preservation of Religious Freedom Act," came in reaction to the college town of Lawrence passing an anti-discrimination ordinance that included sexual orientation. The new state law would nullify that and any other local anti-discrimination ordinance that included sexual orientation by granting citizens the right to opt out if they felt it conflicted with their religious beliefs.