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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGov. Brad Little signs bill to let Idaho doctors refuse care if it violates beliefs
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https://idahocapitalsun.com/briefs/gov-brad-little-signs-bill-to-let-idaho-doctors-refuse-care-if-it-violates-beliefs/
Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed into law a bill that prevents health care professionals and entities from being forced to participate in nonemergency procedures that would violate their sincerely held religious or moral beliefs.
Sen. Carl Bjerke, R-Coeur dAlene, and Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, co-sponsored House Bill 59, dubbed the Medical Ethics Defense Act.
The bill takes effect immediately, through an emergency clause.
Little signed the bill into law Wednesday, according to the governors office legislation tracker.
The Idaho Legislature widely passed the bill on party-line votes, with opposition from all 15 Democratic lawmakers and support from all 86 Republican lawmakers who were present for votes on the bill. (There are 90 Idaho Republican lawmakers.)
Health care providers shall have the right of conscience and, pursuant to this right, shall not be required to participate in or pay for a medical procedure, treatment, or service that violates such health care providers conscience, the bill states.
So if I was doctor and a democrat in Idaho, could I legally refuse to treat MAGA?
bucolic_frolic
(54,047 posts)This is so, so, so F'd up. The government is allowing doctors to violate peoples' boundaries. My beliefs are not your beliefs.
littlemissmartypants
(31,640 posts)Is your malpractice insurance up-to-date?
stoned
(334 posts)If a doctor refuses to treat a trans person for his or her own ideological beliefs, should it be illegal?
If a doctor refuses to treat a Trump supporter for his or her own ideological beliefs, should it be illegal?
If a doctor refuses to treat an open and avowed member of the KKK for his or her own ideological beliefs, should it be illegal?
bluestarone
(21,180 posts)NickB79
(20,247 posts)Treating you goes against my deeply held belief that idiots shouldn't own firearms.
Initech
(107,433 posts)Timeflyer
(3,680 posts)Who gets to decide what is a "non-emergency"? and at what point in an emergency? Jeez, women are gonna die unnecessarily, but the doctor can sleep well knowing gawd approves.
kacekwl
(8,878 posts)in detail on their place of business their website and any advertisement. Make it so they can't hide it. They better also inform their legal team of upcoming lawsuits.
sinkingfeeling
(57,223 posts)BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)malaise
(292,802 posts)That is all