Just hand out pink stars

The Washington Post reports this:

Health Workers' Choice Debated
Proposals Back Right Not to Treat

By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 30, 2006; A01

More than a dozen states are considering new laws to protect health workers who do not want to provide care that conflicts with their personal beliefs, a surge of legislation that reflects the intensifying tension between asserting individual religious values and defending patients' rights.

About half of the proposals would shield pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control and "morning-after" pills because they believe the drugs cause abortions. But many are far broader measures that would shelter a doctor, nurse, aide, technician or other employee who objects to any therapy. That might include in-vitro fertilization, physician-assisted suicide, embryonic stem cells and perhaps even providing treatment to gays and lesbians.

Because many legislatures have just convened, advocates on both sides are predicting that the number debating such proposals will increase. At least 18 states are already considering 36 bills.

In other words, if you're a homo, you had better not have a car accident in a red state, because those morally upstanding folks there will just let you die like a dog on the street.

So, where does this lead? What's next? 'Recreational communities' in the Polish or Czech countryside? Or in Utah, if Theresienstadt happens to be spoken for?

Why tinker at the edges, wingnuts? Just build gas chambers with little Jesus statues - that's what you want, isn't it?