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NullTuples

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Thu Mar 9, 2023, 12:55 AM Mar 2023

Ark. Legislature Passes Bill Making it Easy to Sue Docs Who Provide Gender-Affirming Care to Minors


LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The Arkansas House sent the GOP governor a bill Wednesday to make it easier to sue doctors who provide gender-affirming treatment to minors, moving to effectively reinstate the state's blocked ban on such care.

The office of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she backs the malpractice bill, which overwhelmingly passed the majority-Republican House on a mostly party-line vote.

The House-passed bill would allow anyone who received gender-affirming care as a minor to file a malpractice lawsuit against their doctor for up to 15 years after they turn 18. Under current Arkansas law, medical malpractice claims must be filed within two years of what the law refers to as an “injury.”

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/arkansas-house-sends-governor-trans-care-malpractice-bill-97727882






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Ark. Legislature Passes Bill Making it Easy to Sue Docs Who Provide Gender-Affirming Care to Minors (Original Post) NullTuples Mar 2023 OP
How about the fact Matthew28 Mar 2023 #1

Matthew28

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1. How about the fact
Thu Mar 9, 2023, 12:58 AM
Mar 2023

that not giving minors this care leads to the kid killing themselves? Will those doctors be sued? Of course not because it isn't about helping kids but forcing them to live by some taliban like standard that is in the stone age.

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