California bans state travel to Ohio, saying law could harm LGBT people seeking medical care
Union Bulletin ^ | 9/24/2021 | Wes Venteicher
Posted on 9/25/2021, 5:46:07 AM by EBH
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is banning state-funded travel to Ohio over the state’s new law allowing doctors to decline medical services to people on moral or religious grounds.
The Ohio measure triggered a 2016 California law that requires the attorney general to prohibit state-funded travel to states that discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, according to a Friday news release from California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
The ban takes effect Sept. 30, according to the release. Ohio will become the 18th state to which California won’t pay for travel, according to the release...
...Ohio’s law provides that, “when possible and when the medical practitioner is willing, the medical practitioner shall seek to transfer the patient to a colleague who will provide the requested health care service.”
It also designates that emergency treatment doesn’t qualify for the objections.
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What this is about is mutilating surgery.
Ohio permits surgeons to decline to do it (it’s not even forbidden), California does not allow surgeons to refuse.