Presidential memorandum is important step in the fight against systemic discrimination against LGBT partners.

From The Washington Post:

President Obama mandated Thursday that nearly all hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians and respect patients’ choices about who may make critical health-care decisions for them, perhaps the most significant step so far in his efforts to expand the rights of gay Americans.

The president directed the Department of Health and Human Services to prohibit discrimination in hospital visitation in a memo that was e-mailed to reporters Thursday night while he was at a fundraiser in Miami.

Also see Presidential memo boosts hospital rights of LGBT partners and their families over at Pam’s House Blend.

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