timelordblogging:
OKAY TUMBLR WHY ARE MORE PEOPLE NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS??!!
IN MICHIGAN A BILL IS ABOUT TO BE PASSED ALLOWING EMTS AND HOSPITALS TO REFUSE SERVICE TO GAY PEOPLE BECAUSE IT ‘IMPOSES ON THE HEALTHCARE WORKER’S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM’
THIS IS BULLSHIT AND IT WILL MEAN THAT IT WILL BE LEGAL FOR DOCTORS AND AMBULANCE WORKES TO LET ANY GAY PEOPLE DIE JUST BECAUSE OF THEIR HOMOPHOBIA
PLEASE SPREAD THIS SHIT LIKE WILDFIRE (AND SOMEONE ADD A LINK TO A CHANGE.ORG PETITION TO STOP IT BECAUSE I CAN’T FIND ONE)
OKAY. Let’s talk about how shitty this law is, and it boils down to exactly one point. First, do no harm. FIRST, DO NO HARM. FIRST. DO. NO. HARM. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME YET, MICHIGAN? If you refuse to treat someone who is severely injured because their private life trespasses on your delicate sensibilities (and let’s just revel in the fact that this is basically like saying “oh, you like to be in handcuffs while you and your partner do the do, I don’t approve of those, you don’t get to be treated,” what happens behind closed doors shouldn’t be any of your fucking concern), you are responsible for what happens to them. If they die because you’re a bigot, you did harm.
And, furthermore, let’s acknowledge that this is pretty much guaranteed to be a Christian thing, because it always fucking is (and oh my god, guys, could you stop making the rest of us look like prejudiced fuckheads), and we’re talking about a religion that follows Jesus. Quick recap from your angry neighborhood minister’s kid, Jesus ate dinner with tax collectors and prostitutes and the lowest of the low and if you think he gave a flying fuck about whether Peter was fucking Paul, you are pretty much wrong. Here, I’ll sum up everything J-man ever said about homosexuality: ZILCH NADA. NOT A GODDAMN WORD. In fact, he said, basically, “Go ahead and chuck all the rules in the Torah, I’m gonna hit you with a new one: LOVE THY GODDAMN NEIGHBOR.”
Finally, I’m going to be getting certified as an EMT in the next year or so because fuck you I am good at medicine even if I have “anger issues.” And let me tell you two things: first of all, if I was in an ambulance with someone and my partner refused to treat someone because of this law? I would treat the injured person, because it would be my fucking job and I am a decent person, and then I would rip my partner such a spectacular new one they would be a goddamn medical miracle. Second of all? If someone called and said “hey, that asshole you vehemently despise just dropped like a rock and I think he’s seizing,” I would still treat them, because medical professionals do that. I don’t even give a shit if you do it out of the goodness of your heart, you are a goddamn doctor/surgeon/nurse/EMT/whatthefuckever.
TL;DR: when the transman in the car accident is bleeding out from a lacerated abdomen or when the woman comes to you begging for treatment for her wife who just blacked out, you treat that shit and you tell them that it’s all going to be okay, because you are a goddamn medical professional.
(Source: personblogging, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)
