Ohio governor signs budget that includes allowing medical providers to deny services to LGBT [View all]
Source: New York Daily News
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a state budget that includes a provision allowing medical providers to deny services to LGBTQ people based on moral, ethical, or religious objections.
In his own words, the $74 billion state budget, which was signed late on Wednesday, “speaks to what pulls us together and it reminds us that we have so much more in common than the things that pull us apart,” he said, according to News 5 Cleveland.
Besides focusing on infrastructure, tax cuts, school funding, and access to broadband, the budget also includes anti-LGBTQ medical refusal language.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, “the provision allows medical practitioners to deny medical care based upon the provider’s personal beliefs, including for LGBTQ people in Ohio.”
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