Hospital Visitation

Equality North Carolina Secures Hospital Visitation Protections

Submitted by MikeNelson on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 2:57pm.

If you are straight, you may never have thought about this. Most people haven't, frankly. But, for LGBT people, visiting your partner in the hospital can be a nightmare. Under NC law, you two aren't married and you're not blood relatives. So, basically, you don't have a legal right to participate in key medical decisions involving your partner's care, you have no legal right to receive information about your partner's condition, and you may not even be allowed into your partner's room.

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