been unbelievable, anything, even remotely like this. The problem I see is the loonies continue to rise up to higher levels of authority and power because often "we the people" do not pay enough attention to whom we are really voting for. It's ugly, dangerous and crap like this will eventually take this country under with respect to freedom and any sense of privacy and autonomy ... and basic human rights and humanity. In this state, Kansas, they would love to have a theocratic dystopia.

according to my mother who was an RN. The level of bias and choosing not to provide care was rampant and accepted.

What has happened is that as more laws and transparency evolved, they are now trying to officially protect what has always been going on informally.

organize!

"We're crazier than Florida, Texas AND Arizona."

a group of supposedly educated adults would actually vote for something like this is bordering on the unbelievable.
And now the governor has shown that he is every bit as insane as those who voted for it.

"supposedly educated adults" are "truly fucking insane."

The OP is proof.

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

They wish to see people suffer, that's what they are about now.

The Gerrymandering is killing us as far as the legislature goes. Nothing can be done about that in the short term. We just need to keep that below a veto proof majority in at least one house, then take the Governorship and never let it go.

fact: This is the end result of redistricting: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021971150

Also why I said there is nothing we can do about that for now.

Refusal of pregnancy care to an unmarried mother
Refusal of paediatric care to the child of a gay couple
Refusal of care to an overweight person
Refusal of care to an alcoholic
Refusal of contraceptive advice (I don't know, is that already allowed by some idiotic law?)
Refusal of treatment for HIV

This goes far beyond the unlikely "I don't believe in transfusions" example the article gives. There are significant sects that have 'moral and ethical' objections that already have many qualified doctors and nurses. Hell, the RC church owns many of the hospitals in the country, and they have prejudices against unmarried mothers and gay people.