Then, get cracking with the hangings, lads.
Posted on 01/30/2026 2:58:38 PM PST by Morgana
(LifeSiteNews) — In a now-viral social media video, the father of a 12-year-old boy said “this state is absolutely insane” after California regulations granting medical autonomy to teens prevented him from making a doctor’s appointment for his young son.
“I cannot explain how ridiculous the state of California is. My 12-year-old son, he needs to schedule an appointment himself to go see a doctor or a specialist,” explained the man, whose accounts are held under the name Jonathan Freeman. “Because when you’re 12 in this state, apparently you can make your own medical decisions.”
“We don’t have access to his account with scripts. He has to go in there and do everything,” said the distraught father. “This state is absolutely insane.”
“I should’ve known when I was working as a janitor in 2017, and I saw Time Magazine in every single classroom with a man on the cover that was pregnant,” he continued. “It was a woman with a beard.”
“My state sucks,” lamented the boy’s dad. “It’s gone looney.”
The Golden State dad found lots of sympathy online.
“Lawmakers are abusing children. It’s a brilliant move. They can’t own a gun, can’t drink, can’t smoke, can’t work, but somehow they can decide on their own to take prescription hormone blockers without their parents consent. Unbelievable,” noted a commenter.
“Taking away a parent’s ability to manage their 12-year-old child’s medical appointments while leaving them to foot the bill is sheer madness,” said another.
Another troubled parent empathized, “My 12-year-old daughter has type one diabetes and I can’t order her insulin that she needs in order to LIVE. Welcome to clown world.”
“12-year-olds these days can’t even spell ‘doctor’s appointment,’ much less make decisions about one!” said another social media commenter.
The medical autonomy granted to children beginning is alarming.
According to the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF), minors of various ages may consent to a troubling area of “services,” including:
* Abortions * Treatment for drug- and alcohol-related problems * HIV/AIDS testing and treatments * Diagnosis or treatment of certain infectious, contagious, or communicable diseases, including sexually transmitted diseases * Mental health treatment and counseling * Treatment or prevention of pregnancy, including family planning and contraception * Rape treatment Sexual assault treatment
CHFC explains:
As an example, minors of any age in California may consent to medical care related to the prevention or treatment of pregnancy. The minor’s health care provider can disclose the minor’s medical records only with the authorization of the minor (unless the disclosure is for treatment or other purposes specifically authorized by law). Further, the provider is not permitted to inform a parent or legal guardian of the treatment without the minor’s authorization.
To comply with these requirements, health care providers and HIEs must be able to distinguish the information in a minor’s record that is controlled by the minor from the information that is controlled by his or her parent.
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Illegals voting and Democrats voting.
Don’t live there, don’t go there don’t care. I hope the whole damn place and freak show burn down or fall into the sea.
So, a 12 year old can unilaterally decide to kill her baby, have his reproductive organs remove, cover her body with tattoos, and pierce his tongue?
Evil, but consistent.
You are an idiot for believing what the mainstream media says about California and calling for the murder of american citizens
Grok points out this article is BS:
“Misleading or overstated elements (where the “lies” or heavy spin come in):
The claim that a parent literally cannot schedule a routine or general doctor’s appointment for a 12-year-old is not accurate as a broad rule. For standard pediatric care, check-ups, acute illness, vaccinations, chronic condition management (e.g., asthma, diabetes), etc., parents remain fully authorized to schedule, consent, and access records for minors under 18.
The viral father’s specific situation may involve a specialist or service falling under one of the confidential minor consent categories (possibly mental health, reproductive/endocrine-related if there’s any gender/transition angle implied by context, or another protected area), triggering confidentiality rules. But the article/thread frames it as a general “can’t see a doctor” policy for any appointment, which is false.
No California law broadly strips parents of authority to book appointments for 12-year-olds across all medical care. Routine/family doctor visits are still parent-driven.
The “can’t access accounts” part is partially true only for the protected/confidential portions of care — not a blanket lockout.”
Why is lifesite news allowed to be posted here? That website lies all the time, meanwhile I cannot post from RT despite the fact that RT has NEVER lied
It is a subsidy to send more victims to the abortion industry.
I was thinking it was about that and transgender surgeries.
“ I hope the whole damn place and freak show burn down or fall into the sea.”
Wow. You are ok with millions of Americans dying because that have different political beliefs ?
The majority of voters in California are MAGA, the democrat voters are all mostly either illegals or dead names on outdated voter sheets stuffed into ballot boxes
It did appear way over the top, even for Commiefornia. No Babylon Bee even.
Then, get cracking with the hangings, lads.
The Big Earthquake soon.
Watch the movie “2012.” One scene in particular is very cathartic.
https://youtu.be/oYet52yPgu0?si=GnwaI6YwK7C8hJu_
Except for the idiotic fact that the plane fails to gain altitude for over a minute. The guy is flying below ground level after taking off.
Hollywood 🙄
I assumed the claim was mostly contrived for drama, until I read the fourth paragraph in your post, which confirms that even if not true for every medical situation, it IS the case for some very signficant issues. Parents ought to have knowledge of and the final say in all the items in parentheses as “confidential minor consent categories”.
If your child runs up enormous bills without your knowledge of consent, do you have to pay them? If your child suffers significant harm from medical treatment the child agreed to, but you didn’t, can you sue the medical prvctitioners and institutions?
But you need to be 21 to buy any guns or related gear, or alcohol, or vapes, or pot because, just because..
Really? So why does that “majority” keep electing democrats for governor etc.?
The cities I get but if the state wide voters are MAGA in the majority the cities should not matter but they do.
If they run fast they can save themselves.
“Really? So why does that “majority” keep electing democrats for governor etc.?”
Oh I guess you haven’t heard but there is this thing called “cheating” in elections, you might want to look it up
Audit Reveals Evidence of Voter Fraud in California’s 2022 Election
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4160259/posts
Collectively nothing good comes out of california.
If the place disappears it isn’t murder. Just a natural event. Such is life and those are the breaks.
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