“The law violates the first amendment. They should be allowed to ask anything they want.”
Really? Are you gay? Do you participate in risky sexual behaviors? Do you cheat on your wife or important other? Do you have sex with children? Animals? etc, etc.
If you answer yes to any of the above, then does the Doc have the right to say he does not want you as a patient because you might have AIDs. Well, that IS the law, you can not refuse to treat the patient and you can not ask them those questions.
BUT you are saying it is ok to ask a parent or an elderly person if they own a gun or are a member of the NRA and then drop you as a patient and that is OK.
BS, the Amer Ped Association is the most liberal of the Med Societies, most of which are liberal, and they have an agenda and it ain’t the best care for your kids.
That is my observation as a Professor at a Medical School.
>>Really? Are you gay? Do you participate in risky sexual behaviors? Do you cheat on your wife or important other? Do you have sex with children? Animals? etc, etc.<<
No, no, no and no, no, etc.
That’s one answer. Another would be “Do you?”
>>If you answer yes to any of the above, then does the Doc have the right to say he does not want you as a patient because you might have AIDs. Well, that IS the law, you can not refuse to treat the patient and you can not ask them those questions.<<
As far as I am concerned, that law is unconstitutional as well. It controls free speech.
>>BUT you are saying it is ok to ask a parent or an elderly person if they own a gun or are a member of the NRA and then drop you as a patient and that is OK.<<
No. I am saying that as a free human being and a citizen of the US, the constitution protects their God given right to ask any question they want. And you have the right to refuse to answer, or throw the question back to them, or any other way respond.
Their are two completely separate issues here. 1. can they ask. The constitution says they can. 2. Must you respond. No. You are not required to respond. They can infer anything they want from that. That is their right.