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Better cut back on that red meat guys.

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hence the issue for homosexual couples to get legally married.

That’s one way to react to this. Another, which I advocate, is to call for the government to get its paws out of the marriage business and stop dictating relationship structures at all. I see no reason why I should have to be married to someone to authorize them to make medical decisions on my behalf.

You don’t need to marry someone to authorize them to make medical decisions on your behalf in the U.S. You can assign those rights to anyone you like. But it’s a piece of paper that takes more effort (and probably expense) to get than a marriage license. The issue isn’t that you only get rights if you’re married. The issue is that by marrying someone, the spouse automatically gets a laundry list of rights all justified by one marriage license. (I can’t remember the exact number, but more than two hundred.) All of these rights can be assigned to anyone you like, but each one generally requires a separate filing and fee. That’s a lot of time, effort, and expense that, until recently, same sex couples could not avoid if they wanted their relationships to have anything vaguely close to the same legal standing as a heterosexual married couple.

“But it’s a piece of paper that takes more effort (and probably expense) to get than a marriage license.” That’s not necessarily true. For South Carolina, the Medical Power of Attorney Form is available on-line. You can download it and print it out, no lawyers or fees involved. You don’t even have to have it notarized to make it valid. The only requirement is that it has to be witnessed by 2 people who aren’t your doctor (to avoid conflict of interest) or relatives or who would benefit from your will (to make sure they don’t have a financial incentive to pull the plug on Grandma).

Notice how Mina is imagining Erin as her sick girlfriend…

She noticed*.
*(“Ahhh! What the hell?”)

Her stupid brain that’s smarter than she is is still trying to tell her something.

That first panel made me actually laugh out loud. “Image you have a girlfriend. And now she dies” very nice 😀

Mission accomplished!

I’m not allowed to give blood because I might be a mad cow…

I’m not allowed to donate blood because I was a government lab rat testing new meds and one of them had some rather nasty side effects that don’t go away after you stop taking it.

Poor Mina. Erin makes her think of a sweet sexy girlfriend just to kill her off. That’s mean.

Kind of the whole reason for the “need a paper” is to prevent the WRONG people from making these decisions. If you’re the heir to a fortune, who do you want to have authority to (as an extreme example) commit you to a mental hospital? The next person in your family who will inherit if you’re out of the way, or the person you married because the two of you love each other?