Washington (CNN) -- President Obama has asked the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a rule that would prevent US hospitals from denying visitation privileges to gay and lesbian partners.
The president's Thursday memo said, "There are few moments in our lives that call for greater compassion and companionship than when a loved one is admitted to the hospital. ... Yet every day, all across America, patients are denied the kindnesses and caring of a loved one at their sides."
Gay and lesbian Americans are "uniquely affected" by relatives-only policies at hospitals, Obama said, adding that they "are often barred from the bedsides of the partners with whom they may have spent decades of their lives -- unable to be there for the person they love, and unable to act as a legal surrogate if their partner is incapacitated."
It was about time something was done about the archaic, cruel and barbaric rule barring same sex partners from hospital visitation rights.
I would simply ask anyone who disagrees with this new policy, what would you feel if you were barred from visiting your lifelong partner?
Read more at: CNN PoliticsThe president's Thursday memo said, "There are few moments in our lives that call for greater compassion and companionship than when a loved one is admitted to the hospital. ... Yet every day, all across America, patients are denied the kindnesses and caring of a loved one at their sides."
Gay and lesbian Americans are "uniquely affected" by relatives-only policies at hospitals, Obama said, adding that they "are often barred from the bedsides of the partners with whom they may have spent decades of their lives -- unable to be there for the person they love, and unable to act as a legal surrogate if their partner is incapacitated."
It was about time something was done about the archaic, cruel and barbaric rule barring same sex partners from hospital visitation rights.
I would simply ask anyone who disagrees with this new policy, what would you feel if you were barred from visiting your lifelong partner?
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