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Here are some ways you can This contrasts with 26 percent of lesbian mothers have implications American adolescents in the for healthcare professionals, make a difference: general population who report policymakers, social service EDITOR/OFFICE • Breaking Barriers has placed MANAGER parent or caregiver physical abuse, agencies and child protection food barreles in local pubs; drop off Charles Peer and 8.3 percent who report sexual experts who seek family models in donations there or help with abuse. which violence does not occur.” buying turkeys by visiting The new findings are from the On sexual orientation, 2.8 ARTS EDITOR BreakingBarriers.org Chris Narloch U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian percent of the NLLFS adolescents Debbie Was Awesome! • The Sacramento Zoo is raising Family Study (NLLFS), the longest- identified as predominantly to Dear Outword, donations for Toys for Tots and running study ever conducted on exclusively homosexual. CALENDAR EDITOR Thank-you, thank-you, thank- Sacramento Food Bank & Family American lesbian families (now in The study was conducted by Charles Peer you! It’s always fun to win, and Services. Bring a non-perishable its 24th year). In an article Nanette Gartrell, MD; Henny Bos, winning tickets from Outword to food item or a new and unwrapped published Nov. 10 in the Archives PhD (University of Amsterdam); CONTRIBUTING see Debbie Reynolds at Thunder toy when you visit the zoo and of Sexual Behavior, the 17-year-old and Naomi Goldberg, MPP WRITERS Valley Casino was no exception. receive $1 off your zoo admission. daughters and sons of lesbian (Williams Institute). 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General Visitation Rights for DPs he Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services their right to choose who may visit Assembly has voted to remove a reference them during their inpatient stay, (CMS) have issued new rules for Medicare- and to sexual orientation from a resolution on regardless of whether the visitor is a T Medicaid-participating hospitals that protect family member, a spouse, a extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions that T patients’ right to choose their own visitors during a domestic partner (including a urges States to protect the right to life of all people, same-sex domestic partner), or other hospital stay, including a visitor who is a same-sex including by calling on states to investigate killings type of visitor, as well as their right domestic partner. to withdraw such consent to based on discriminatory grounds. “Basic human rights — such as directed that the rules take into visitation at any time. “These rules put non-clinical For the past ten years, the resolution resolution, as did India, Australia and your ability to choose your own account the need for a hospital to decisions about who can visit a has included sexual orientation in the Japan. Most countries voting for the support system in a time of need — restrict visitation in medically list of discriminatory grounds on which removal are nations in Africa and patient out of the hands of those must not be checked at the door of appropriate circumstances. killings are often based. Mentioning Muslim countries. Notably, China and who deliver care and into the hands sexual orientation as a basis on which Indonesia voted to remove the America’s hospitals,” said HHS The rules require hospitals to of those who receive it,” said CMS people are targeted for killing language, as did Afghanistan and Iraq. Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. have written policies and Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, highlights a situation in which “This vote is a dangerous and “Today’s rules help give ‘full and procedures detailing patients’ MPP. “While we still have miles to particular vigilance is required in order disturbing development,” said Cary equal’ rights to all of us to choose visitation rights, as well as the go in making care more patient- for all people to be afforded equal Alan Johnson, Executive Director of whom we want by our bedside circumstances under which the centered, these rules make it easier protection. IGLHRC. “It essentially removes the when we are sick, and override any hospitals may restrict patient access for hospitals to deliver on some of The amendment removing the important recognition of the particular objection by a hospital or staffer to visitors based on reasonable the fundamental tenets of patient- reference to sexual orientation was who may disagree with us for any clinical needs. centered care — care that recognizes sponsored by Benin on behalf of the vulnerability faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people — a non-clinical reason.” A key provision of the rules and respects the patient as an African Group in the UN General The new rules, released Nov. 17, specifies that all visitors chosen by individual with unique needs, who Assembly, and was adopted with 79 recognition that is crucial at a time treated with dignity and granted the votes in favor, 70 against, 17 when 76 countries around the world follow from an April 15, 2010 the patient (or his or her abstentions and 26 absent on Tuesday, criminalize homosexuality, five Presidential Memorandum, in which representative) must be able to power of informed choice.” Nov. 16. consider it a capital crime, and President Obama tasked HHS with enjoy “full and equal” visitation CMS finalized the rules based on The U.S., Canada and Mexico and countries like Uganda are considering developing standards for Medicare- privileges consistent with the wishes thousands of comments from most South American and Northern adding the death penalty to their laws and Medicaid-participating hospitals of the patient (or his or her patient advocates, the hospital European countries voted against the criminalizing homosexuality.” (including critical access hospitals) representative). community and other stakeholders. that would require them to respect The rules update the Conditions The rules will be effective 60 days the right of all patients to choose of Participation (CoPs), which are after publication. who may visit them when they are the health and safety standards all More information about the rules an inpatient of a hospital. Medicare- and Medicaid- is available on CMS’ Web site at The President’s memorandum participating hospitals and critical www.cms.gov/CFCsAndCoPs/06_ instructed HHS to develop rules that access hospitals must meet, and are Hospitals.asp would prohibit hospitals from applicable to all patients of those denying visitation privileges on the hospitals regardless of payer source.