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What manner of insanity is this?<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n Inspira claims that it created the questionnaire to comply with a New Jersey law requiring healthcare providers to \u201ccollect race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity in a culturally competent and sensitive manner\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n The questions are intended to \u201cprovide a safe and compassionate experience\u201d and \u201ccomply with recently-enacted state legislation\u201d, the form states.<\/strong><\/p>\n Republican State Senator Holly Schepisi told the Post: \u201cThe entire thing lacks such common sense, and serves no purpose whatsoever.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAs a mom myself, I know you\u2019re exhausted after giving birth, you\u2019ve got a crying newborn and you\u2019re trying to figure out how to feed it. To be handed that sort of form in the midst of all that has no medical value, it makes no sense.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n She added that she would introduce a bill next week to revise New Jersey law to limit the data collection to patients aged over 16 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article concludes:<\/p>\n Inspira Health told The Telegraph that it was \u201crequired by New Jersey law\u201d to \u201crequest their patients provide their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n It continued: \u201cPatients are permitted to decline to provide this information.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cPer recent guidance from the New Jersey Department of Health stating that health systems can collect that data in a clinically appropriate and culturally competent manner, Inspira Health will request this information from adults.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis update in protocol remains compliant with the law, and we respect patients\u2019 right to decline to respond.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n He added that the company had sought a waiver from the state but that it had not been granted.<\/strong><\/p>\n I don’t have a problem with the government collecting basic birth statistics. However, this is ridiculous. Babies know how to eat, cry, smile, and make messes. Their intellectual capacity in other areas is very limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We need to find the person who put this questionnaire together and make sure they are never again involved in public policy. On Monday, Yahoo News reported that parents of newborn babies born in New Jersey are legally required to … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NewJerseyForm.jpg\")
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