Vile and beyond any justification

[kitanzi]

http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/09/hospital-forces-lesbian-to-die-alone/

I am too damn tired to have any words, I can only hope the people responsible for this also die alone, kept from their families and reviled by the people responsible for their care.

Comments

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I haven't read much on this case personally, but bcholmes linked to this but then later linked to this analysis (http://expanding-x-man.livejournal.com/511304.html?thread=2911304#t2911304) that suggests that this wasn't a cut-and-dried case of discrimination.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

This analysis appears to say is that apparently the hospital is legally allowed to treat *anyone* (or possibly just anyone who is not married) like this, and the fact that in practice they only treat gay families this way is not something the law can do anything about.

Something I think we should change.

As for the hospital's "statement" about treating gays and lesbians equally, I am frankly astonished that the spokeswoman could get the words out without choking.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

You're responding to the wrong person. Like I said, I haven't done any reading on the subject at all, I'd just seen the link passed along in relation to this topic.