The Langbehn-Pond tragedy

[nwhyte]

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  Ask Nicola: trembling with rage
  Woman denied the right to comfort her dying partner because they were a same-sex couple
  (tags: sexandsexualityandgender ushealth)

Comments

[xipuloxx]

I ... but ...

What? How can this be in any way legally justifiable?

I'm completely gobsmacked.

It's bad enough (and completely unacceptable) they denied access to the partner, but the children? I mean, she'd legally adopted them! How could the hospital deny them the chance to say goodbye to their mother? And how could a judge say they were right to do so?

There are no words.

[yea_mon]

Easy, the hospital people seem to be righteous bigots, and so does the judge.

I find it amazing that such people can walk through life and never once realize that they are scum.

[irishkate]

apparently the judge is not - he seems to have agreed that it was outrageous but been stuck with a legal inability to come to any other conclusion - he asked the defendants to put in another claim before some date before he called the case closed..

[yea_mon]

Thanks for that Kate.

I let my righteous indignation get the better of me and pre-judged the judge...