politics

Was born premature, and required open heart surgery when I was only a few days old.

When I was around 17 I had the chance to visit the hospital and tour the children's ICU I had been in. A children's ICU is not the happiest place in the world, and there were strange looks from both staff and parents as we walked around, feeling very awkward.

Then a short man with a thick accent burst through the door and hugged me. Turned out, the doctor who had performed my surgery was there and insisted on showing me around personally.

He walked me over to a woman who was about the saddest person I have ever seen, sitting next to an incubator. "This is what your son will look like in 18 years" he told her.

They took my picture, and hung it on the board for the kids who had "graduated", and I have to believe it was the first time in a long time that room had joy and happiness in it.

If someone had told me that that doctor wasn't welcome because he had a husband I think I would have wanted to become violent.

This law means that those families now have 1/3 fewer people to give a chance for thier kids, and the odds for me hadn't been that great to begin with.

So long as the majority left behind in the state are GOP voters, they couldn't care less about how many people get harmed or die from their policies ...

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TL;DR: a gay pediatric cardiologist (one of only 3 pediatric cardiologists in the state) moved away because Louisiana politicians are predominantly backwards, regressive, homophobic shitstains. Other things too, but those are the characteristics relevant to the article.

When it's deemed illegal for you to exist, I don't think that's a political viewpoint anymore.

There's no need of doctors in the red states, they can just pray the pain away. If they die, well that's God will.

he is an internally displaced refugee. that's what it's come to now with all this. we need to liberate nazi-occupied states

Even if some children in Louisiana won't be able to get heart transplants, it's okay because these children were already born.

Good for him. Wish him and his all the best in their new home.

That fucking sucks he has to run away but also damn if he isn’t probably the hottest doctor in Louisiana…. Well not anymore

I hope the best for him and his family

I usually say they deserve the repercussions of their terrible values. When it affects innocent kids, it makes me sad.

The article doesn't do a good job explaining the "Don't Say Gay" bill. The bill prohibits teachers from teaching about sexual orientation before 4th grade.

Here is an article about that:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/florida-don-t-say-gay-bill-desantis-1.6400087