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Gay doctor flees Louisiana due to anti-LGBTQ+ laws: ‘I don’t have a choice’
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There's no need of doctors in the red states, they can just pray the pain away. If they die, well that's God will.
It's quite unfortunate for those too poor to move or who otherwise have no choice.
But at this point, what kind of care are they actually going to get if they're too poor to move. They're fucked either way because God forbid we help people in need.
It is but given that I did it, and I am hardly impressive, and pretyyy much every day I see immigrant families who did a much more difficult version my sympathy levels arent very high. Except for the teens and kids. They are fucked until 18.
If you have a kid, giving up everything including their welfare and education just so you can move is kind of abusive.
Honestly, leaving a red state would arguably give them a better education. It's more likely that people would be leaving behind friends and family which, in this day with very little social nets and high prices, is incredibly difficult, not to mention the emotional toll on some people.
If you have a kid, you should be ensuring that they live in a safe, healthy environment where they have the chance to succeed. If that means moving, move. If that means staying stay. If that means fighting the fascist scum who want everyone to suffer, fight.
Works as well as praying for the protection of children at shootings.
Why would they stop with such success?
The don't call 911, remember? 🔫
by your logic there's no need for international refugees on blue states either. red states can deal with them. (I'm being ironic here as your logic is as bigoted as theirs and, imho, that's not the way to resolve it)
....da fuck does that even mean? And how is saying red states pushing doctors away bigoted? They voted for this, they get to deal with the consequences. FAFO.
Aight 'b'
original comment stated "there's no need for doctors in red states" which it isn't true. what are you? 12?
there is a difference between saying what you mean, personally, versus personifying what one imagines the GOP leadership running the state of louisiana would say based on their voting record and obvious stances.
the person saying the comment above likely doesn’t think the people of louisiana don’t require doctors, but is instead saying that the state, as a whole, is reaping what they sow.
it’s unfortunate that there are going to be a lot of people that get fucked over on this. and a lot of people will have to do a lot of traveling to get procedures done. and it’s going to be painful. and that pain unfortunately needs to occur, or else the powers that be won’t realize how far they’re fucking over the citizens of their state.
it’s a hard lesson that’s being learned. idaho is learning it too. it fucking sucks.
brain drain is real. and the folks that ensured that it was possible are going to reap what they sow.
right now as far as lousiana the state government is concerned, they would rather have the coverage of a religious based rule than a gay doctor that could save the lives of so many children.
in which case: the hyperbolic statement that “there’s no need for doctors in red states, they have prayers” is, in essence, an accurate hyperbolization.
You're mostly right, but you made one critical mistake.
It isn't the powers that be that need to learn the lesson there, it's the citizens. Specifically the ones that keep voting for these shitstains. The ones passing these laws know exactly how much damage they're doing, they just don't care. They'll only stop when enacting these policies makes them unelectable, and the only way that will happen is if their supporters suffer the consequences of their actions.
Yes, agreed, they deserve what's coming for them but the "hyperbolisation" (as you called it) it's still wrong. They still have 2 other doctors there and I'm sure some other religious nut case will turn up to fulfil that position. Leaving them to their "hopes and prayers" is still as cruel as what these nut jobs wish upon the misfits. My take is that we can't take the same exact atitude towards them otherwise we are just proving them right. "An eye for an eye" rings a bell, probably biblical too.
Sarcasm 🙄
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