A pediatrician in Michigan has refused to take care of a new born girl after she realized
that her parents are actually two lesbian women Christa and Jamie Contreras are the
parents of Bay Windsor Contreras and apparently when they took their daughter to doctor Vesna
Roi in Michigan in the Detroit area to be specific she refused to take care of this
child now they called and the appointment to see Dr. Roi weeks in advance and then they
show up and apparently there's a completely different doctor who's willing to take care
of the child in fact the doctor told them I'll be your doctor I'll be seeing you today
because Dr. Roi decided because she prayed on it and she wouldn't be able to care for
Bay well she took the time out of her busy day to pray on it and they're really asking
for more than that watch out for any time somebody says oh I prayed on that this is
insane you're a pediatrician OK you have what's amazing is apparently rules in the state of
Detroit indicated that Michigan as a pediatrician you don't you don't have to worry if you want
to discriminate against a gay couple then you can do it which is insane but it's actually
the case in many states yeah not just Michigan only 22 states make it illegal for a doctor
to refuse care due to someone's sexual orientation so remember when we were having the cake debates
gay couple wants to get married they want to get a cake the guy refused them service
is that a civil rights issues are people are like outrageous and look I had my reservations
about it but this is but you open that door and that's where this door leads to and they
go OK well I he makes cakes I'm a doctor he provides a service I provide a service I don't
want to provide that service to people who I think are immoral so I'm going to give you
treatment not going to treat you or your baby who is by the way not a lesbian I mean we
have no idea what the baby is right but it doesn't matter when they judge the baby based
on your action it's OK though I've prayed on it and I can do whatever I want as long
as I pray on it alright so let's hear from Dr. Roi but before we do I will say this apparently
Dr. Roi provided prenatal care to the couple prior to all of this going down so she knew
that the parents were lesbians and I don't know why she randomly had a change of heart
and she actually gave very vague answers about this to the press she said the following after
much prayer following your prenatal I felt I would not be able to develop the personal
patient-doctor relationships that I normally do with my patients please know that I believe
that god gives us free choice and I would never judge anyone based on what they do with
that free choice apparently you do because you are judging this couple and you are refusing
to take care of their child to provide care for their child and are you using that statement
so they don't judge you and your free choice so your free choice is apparently something
takes priority over everyone else's free choice right so I'm split on this cause I don't want
her taking care of the baby I don't either I'm glad that she's transparent right if she's
got that weird hostility against them then I certainly don't want her to be their doctor
now at the same time this whole idea of choice and I'm not judging you is total B.S. that's
exactly what you're doing you refuse treat their baby cause you're judging them that's
I mean it's by definition the very act that you have done right so it's like when people
start a sentence with I don't mean to be offensive they're about to be offensive when they say
long story short wrong the story already way too long OK so in this case I'm not judging
you but I've decided that I'm not going to treat you cause I judged you exactly right
so no it's it's weird because reading the whole story they say that she was perfectly
lovely during the prenatal care and you know and all that so I don't think that Dr. Roi
is a bad person I think that this is why I'm opposed to religion that religion has told
her that in order for her to be a good person and I believe I don't know you know look it's
just the context and all the things that the couple said about her she said etc lead me
to this conclusion I could be totally wrong about it but I got the sense she's trying
to do the right thing but religion has confused her as to what to do the right as to what
the right thing is she's like well I mean they seem like lovely people that's a cute
baby and I want to take care of them but and I'm a doctor I take care of people but at
the same time my religion tells that if I do I'm a bad person well thankfully for religious
people that are confused about these things they can email into Pat Robertson and he'll
give them sound advice so just ask Pat Robertson what to do well Pat Robertson would tell you
obey your husband that had nothing to do with this question you should obey him anyway obey
your husband he should be able to beat you if he doesn't and cheat on you and if he does
it was your fault