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Trump quietly shuts down HIV cure research to appease the religious right
"This effectively stops all of our research to discover a cure for HIV," one researcher says
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/12/trump-quietly-shuts-hiv-cure-research-appease-religious-right
@tyghebright
"Earlier this year, [DHHS] announced a new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division that would handle complaints from health care providers who did not want to take part in an abortion or treat transgender people."
WTAF? OK, I kind of understand objecting to actually participating in an abortion, if you think that's murder, but *treating* a transgender person?
Which religion *is* it, exactly, that says "Thou shalt withhold aid and comfort from anyone who makes you feel icky"?
It happened all the time; now the gov't is legitimizing it.
It could be as obvious as paramedics stopping treatment in an ambulance when they realized the genitals weren't what they expected from the patient's appearance. Or more subtle, doctors saying they don't treat trans people because they don't have the training -- sometimes when the issue being treated has NOTHING to do with being trans... and sometimes when they really SHOULD know (as in, they're an endocrinologist).
I'm not doubting that it happens.
I'm wondering how anyone who's both taken the Hippocratic Oath *and* purporting to be a member of any mainstream religion can possibly justify it to themselves *on the basis of that religion*.
But basically I know it's a rhetorical question. Some people are just plain fucked up.
I just wish they weren't.