"They may believe that state-imposed orthodoxies in speech pose few dangers and many benefits in this field (and who knows what others). But their policy is not the First Amendment's."
"The Constitution does not protect the right of some to speak freely; it protects the right of all. It safeguards not only popular ideas; it secures, even and especially, the right to voice dissenting views."
"Consistent with these principles, our precedents have expressly rejected the State and dissent's notion that 'professional speech' represents some 'separate category of speech' subject to 'diminished constitutional protection.'"
"In the worst-case scenario, our medical system unravels as various licensed healthcare professionals - talk therapists, psychiatrists, and presumably anyone else who claims to utilize speech when administering treatments to patients - start broadly wielding their new-found constitutional right to provide substandard medical care."
A study by The Trevor Project indicates that young individuals who underwent conversion therapy are over twice as likely to attempt suicide compared to those who did not. In a recent court ruling, an 8-1 decision upheld that Colorado's law, which targets licensed professionals, does not infringe upon free speech rights. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, arguing that medical speech should be treated differently due to its implications for patient care and the potential decline in healthcare quality resulting from the ruling.
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