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Guarantee hospital visitations to all, not just churchgoers.
The State Senate is considering a bill (HB2575) that guarantees hospital visitations for religious people, but leaves behind everyone else.
HB2575 is a very short, very simple bill. It's eight lines of text require hospitals to allow visitations from clergy members at all times. This supposedly promises comfort and spiritual guidance to people in situations such as the end of life. But the bill's narrow focus on "clergy" — a word not defined in the bill, but commonly understood to mean church leaders — threatens to leave people without churches out of the equation.
Nobody should face their mortality alone, and that includes over 1.7 million Arizonans without religious affiliation. So we're asking Senators to make a simple, clean amendment: replace the word "clergy" with a term that encompasses those without ordained spiritual advisors.
We think all Arizonans — religious and nonreligious alike — can get behind this kind of compassion.
Lawmakers — including those who support the bill's current draft — are already expressing an openness to such an amendment. So please contact your state Senator today here with just a few clicks and let's make it happen.
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