Posted on 12/17/2014 9:44:46 AM PST by Zakeet
A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a ruling ordering Massachusetts prison officials to provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery for an inmate convicted of murder.
Michelle Kosilek, born Robert Kosilek, is serving a life sentence for killing spouse Cheryl Kosilek in 1990. Kosilek has waged a protracted legal battle for the surgery she says is necessary to relieve the mental anguish caused by gender-identity disorder.
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Kosilek, now 65, told The Associated Press in 2011 that the surgery is a medical necessity.
"Everybody has the right to have their health care needs met, whether they are in prison or out on the streets," Kosilek said.
"People in the prisons who have bad hearts, hips or knees have surgery to repair those things. My medical needs are no less important or more important than the person in the cell next to me."
(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...
Let's give Bubba and LeRoy a switchblade knife, put them in the same cell with the wife killer, and in less than five minutes everyone will be happy!
“Everybody has the right to have their health care needs met, whether they are in prison or out on the streets,” Kosilek said.”
There is no such right.
Creep.
Would Laz hit THAT!?
A little glimmer of sanity in Messachusetts.
And no secret decoder ring...
This subject is crazy. Prisoners lose certain rights when incarcerated. Even if we want to say that obamacare needs to cover these sex change operations, that only applies to people on the outside, not people in prison.
He is in prison and he is that distressed he doesn’t have private hidden girl parts??? What the heck???
I know. It’s been fifteen years since I left there, and this is the first I’ve seen since i left.
Incorrect supposition. Your 'medical needs' are based on a psychological desire or disorder. The other persons medical needs are based on a physical defect or injury. Slice of your Johnson and your 'medical need' to not bleed to death will be handled post-haste with a cautering iron.
sex changes are not necessary healthcare. period.
Remember the old days where sh*t like this would laying in the ground by now with an extra long neck?
I am all for castration/neutering.
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