Is Your Physician Being Censored?
Assistant Professor Jason Smith says politicians are the fly on the wall in your doctor ’s office
When California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a landmark bill into law banning physicians from engaging in same-sex orientation change efforts on minors — the practice of converting same-sex attraction to heterosexual attraction in children and teens — he had these celebratory words for Twitter: “These practices have no basis in science or medicine, and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery.”
Though the anti-conversion law easily passed in California (the Senate voted 23-13 and the State Assembly 51-22), Brown’s success was immediately challenged by a group of medical practitioners and parents claiming it infringed on their First Amendment rights.