January 29th, 2011 at 5:14AM
YAY! Obama Hospital Visitation Rights For Gay Couples Goes In Effect

leftish:

A memo signed in April by President Obama that bans hospitals from discriminating against gay men and lesbians went into effect on Tuesday.

The order prohibits hospitals that accept federal funding from Medicare and Medicaid, the government’s elderly and poor health care programs, from discriminating on the basis of a variety of characteristics, including sexual orientation and gender identity. It also prevents hospitals from denying visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians, and requires officials to honor patients’ wishes of who can make medical decisions on their behalf.

(via fuckyeahfeminists)
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    Yeah it’s good as a stopgap, but in the end it’s just going to delay gay marriage. “We gave you hospital visitation, why...
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    At first, I was taken aback by what this article was about - only because in my mind, health care has always been a...
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    HOORAY!!! LGBT FTW!!!
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    AH! PROGRESS! OMG! FANTASTIC! YAY! JOY! CONFETTI!
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