U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan dismissed a lawsuit yesterday, essentially finding that the Jackson Memorial Hospital was within its rights to leave a dying woman alone while denying her present and immediate family to visit her, be updated on her condition, or even to provide the hospital with medically necessary information.

I keep hearing that this doesn't happen anymore, that all hospitals recognize gay relationships as legitimate in decision-making and visitation rights. This is simply NOT so. This wasn't even simply (as if it's simple...) a case of a partner not being there for her wife. This was about children who weren't allowed to be there while their mother was dying. It's about critical health information that wasn't allowed to be provided from the family because they weren't recognized as her immediate family.

This *has* to stop. It's more than time for equality. And this lawsuit was DISMISSED?! Where are our federal laws preventing this from occuring?