California rules doctors cannot withhold care to gays.
Via Atrios, the AP reports:
California’s high court has ruled doctors cannot withhold care to gays or lesbians based on religious beliefs.The case stems from a San Diego-area lesbian’s claim that a private fertility clinic refused to inseminate her because of her sexual orientation.
A unanimous state Supreme Court said that California’s civil rights law barring sexual orientation discrimination extends to medical care.
Via Atrios, the AP reports:
California’s high court has ruled doctors cannot withhold care to gays or lesbians based on religious beliefs.The case stems from a San Diego-area lesbian’s claim that a private fertility clinic refused to inseminate her because of her sexual orientation.
A unanimous state Supreme Court said that California’s civil rights law barring sexual orientation discrimination extends to medical care.
Obama Appears Ready to Announce His Running Mate Senator Barack Obama has all but settled on his choice for a running mate and set an elaborate rollout plan for his decision, beginning with an early morning alert to supporters, perhaps as soon as Wednesday morning, aides said.
Journalist says U.S. target was Al-Jazeera 8 After more than six years as a prisoner of the United States, former TV cameraman Sami al-Hajj is back at work with Al-Jazeera, the largest broadcaster in the Arab world... and, by most indications, a target of deep hostility from the Bush regime. Al-Jazeera has also been hit twice by U.S. artillery fire. One shelling destroyed its Kabul bureau in November 2001. The second struck a Baghdad office in April 2003, killing correspondent Tareq Ayoub
Journalist says U.S. target was Al-Jazeera 8 After more than six years as a prisoner of the United States, former TV cameraman Sami al-Hajj is back at work with Al-Jazeera, the largest broadcaster in the Arab world... and, by most indications, a target of deep hostility from the Bush regime. Al-Jazeera has also been hit twice by U.S. artillery fire. One shelling destroyed its Kabul bureau in November 2001. The second struck a Baghdad office in April 2003, killing correspondent Tareq Ayoub
Mamdouh Habib fined $400 for outburst Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mamdouh Habib has been fined $400 for offensive language and behaviour during an incident at a McDonald's restaurant in which police said he called them "smelly" and a "piece of shit".
U.S.'s Gates scoffs at Russian warnings to Poland Pentagon chief Robert Gates dismissed as "empty rhetoric" on Sunday Russian warnings that Moscow would target Poland for a possible military strike because Warsaw agreed to host part of a U.S. missile shield. "Russia is not going to launch nuclear missiles at anybody," Defense Secretary Gates said on ABC News' "This Week." "The Poles know that. We know it."
Security officials to scan DC area license plates --Plan will be funded by federal homeland security grants Homeland security officials in the Washington area plan to dramatically expand the use of automated license plate readers to 'prevent' possible terrorist attacks. Officials from Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia have agreed to install 200 license plate readers on police vehicles, at airports and along roads.
Did McCain Steal His "Cross in the Dirt" Story at the Saddleback Forum From Solzhenitsyn? By Mark Nickolas The blogosphere is abuzz right now over the discovery that a POW story told by John McCain (R) at Saturday night’s presidential forum is eerily similar to one told by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his famous book The Gulag Archipelago which chronicled his time in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s and 1960s... What is going on here? Did McCain lie to Pastor Rick Warren in a church this weekend about his POW experience in an attempt to kiss-up to Evangelicals who are already very concerned about his bona fides on faith and religion?
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