Moving to a new state shouldn't force you to say goodbye to your therapist. Counseling is speech.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Now, a decision from a federal district court in Washington, D.C., paints that arbitrary cruelty in yet another light: as a possible violation of the First Amendment.
50% : But the D.C. court allowed the case to proceed, explaining that counseling "is speech, not conduct" and, as a result, is subject to the highest levels of protection under the First Amendment.
50% : Lawyers already talk across state lines all the time; it is hardly unheard of for a businessman in New York to pick up a phone and call a lawyer at a firm in Washington, and courts have held that the First Amendment protects the speech rights of other professionals as well.
48% : We recognize these relationships are protected by the First Amendment, and the therapist-client relationship is no different.
47% : And the First Amendment applies without regard to state lines.
44% : Here are your rights under the first amendment.
43% : A court in Texas, for instance, recently held that the First Amendment protects a veterinarian's speech over the internet.
43% : These types of restrictions are consistent with the First Amendment.
41% : But when professionals talk to their clients, to give one-on-one advice, that is speech protected by the First Amendment.

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