Posted on Jun 22, 2022
S.C. law lets health care providers refuse nonemergency care based on beliefs
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Amberlyn Boiter worries that doctors in South Carolina now have a legal excuse to deny her health care. "I haven't felt comfortable going to a doctor in well over a year," says Boiter.
That's when Boiter, who is 35 years old, began transitioning into the woman she believes she's meant to be and doctors would not give her the hormones she needed.
Boiter bought them online and found an out-of-state doctor she sees via telehealth — care that she says most of her transgender friends cannot afford.
"The truth is, it's dangerous for a lot of trans people out there who don't have access to mainstream health care," says Boiter. She fears the situation will only get worse now that the Medical Ethics and Diversity Act has been signed into law by Gov. Henry McMaster.
The new law lets health care providers refuse nonemergency care that conflicts with their religious, moral or ethical beliefs. Supporters say it protects doctors, nurses and medical students from being forced to violate their conscience. However, critics call the law a license to discriminate, especially against LGBTQ people.
Amberlyn Boiter worries that doctors in South Carolina now have a legal excuse to deny her health care. "I haven't felt comfortable going to a doctor in well over a year," says Boiter.
That's when Boiter, who is 35 years old, began transitioning into the woman she believes she's meant to be and doctors would not give her the hormones she needed.
Boiter bought them online and found an out-of-state doctor she sees via telehealth — care that she says most of her transgender friends cannot afford.
"The truth is, it's dangerous for a lot of trans people out there who don't have access to mainstream health care," says Boiter. She fears the situation will only get worse now that the Medical Ethics and Diversity Act has been signed into law by Gov. Henry McMaster.
The new law lets health care providers refuse nonemergency care that conflicts with their religious, moral or ethical beliefs. Supporters say it protects doctors, nurses and medical students from being forced to violate their conscience. However, critics call the law a license to discriminate, especially against LGBTQ people.
S.C. law lets health care providers refuse nonemergency care based on beliefs
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SMSgt Anil Heendeniya
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It's very sad and takes us back into the Dark Ages of medicine. And watch them apply their seething racism under the cover of those "religious beliefs". This will be their surreptitious version of Hitler's Final Solution: refuse care on the grounds of religious belief, causing the suffering of human beings, leading to the demise of countless members of American Society. DrumpfenFührer's channeling his father, influencing the Fourth Reich in his praise: Evil personified!
It's very sad and takes us back into the Dark Ages of medicine. And watch them apply their seething racism under the cover of those "religious beliefs". This will be their surreptitious version of Hitler's Final Solution: refuse care on the grounds of religious belief, causing the suffering of human beings, leading to the demise of countless members of American Society. DrumpfenFührer's channeling his father, influencing the Fourth Reich in his praise: Evil personified!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
A bunch of inbred troglodytes with too much power in S.C.
Watch them establish their evil racism, sexism, and fascism under that cover.
So much for both The Oath of Maimonides as well as The Prayer of Maimonides, and that will foist changes upon the practice of The Hippocratic Oath.
A bunch of inbred troglodytes with too much power in S.C.
Watch them establish their evil racism, sexism, and fascism under that cover.
So much for both The Oath of Maimonides as well as The Prayer of Maimonides, and that will foist changes upon the practice of The Hippocratic Oath.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel This law is wrong on so many levels. What was once off label use, or alternative care is now standard of care. I have seen this over and over again in the last 25 years.
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PO2 Russell "Russ" Lincoln
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - Seems that currently the "Do No Harm" has been replaced by what's politically correct.
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