Quote where the statute restricts the speech between doctor and patient.
If the statute actually restricts the lawful communications between doctor and patient, then it is unconstitutional. Right?
Did your GP actually require what you had to do, and what the surgeon had to do, or did your GP...
The statute doesn't forbid referrals, period. Right?
I've had extremely limited experience with doctors -- I can count my sick visits with doctors on one hand. But I've never known one doctor or other medical professional to make a referral to another doctor and require the patient to obtain a...
This is a question for everyone here who believes that the Tampa ordinance is constitutional:
Exactly what words or communications are forbidden by the Tampa ordinance for a provider to say?
Where did you get that idea? Name a couple of dozen of the outlawed "medical treatments" that you are referring to. Can you name even one other type of psychotherapy or counseling that has been banned by law? I can't.
Exactly what words or communications are forbidden by the Tampa ordinance for...
What is LEGAL FICTION?
Believing or assuming something not true is true. Used in judicial reasoning for avoiding issues where a new situation comes up against the law, changing how the law is applied, but not changing the text of the law.
What is LEGAL FICTION? definition of LEGAL FICTION...
Would you want courts to decide the constitutionality of such laws on the basis of whether they approve or disapprove of such therapy, or whether they approve or disapprove of parents consenting for therapies for their minor children?
Again, here is my first question here:
Does your opinion on whether such conversion therapy bans are or should be constitutional consistent with your views on the rightness or wrongness of conversion therapy?
Apparently 14 states and approximately 50 local jurisdictions have enacted bans on sexual orientation conversion therapy for minors.
List of U.S. jurisdictions banning conversion therapy - Wikipedia
These laws and ordinances have been challenged in courts, with varying outcomes. However, to...
No, it's you who's wrong.
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