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California dad can’t schedule doctor visit for 12-year-old son due to state’s medical autonomy laws
Life Site News ^ | January 30, 2026 | Doug Mainwaring

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.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: abortion; baldfacelies; california; childabuse; children; clownifornia; clownworld; medical; parentalrights; pelosicrimefamily; prolife
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To: Sequoyah101

Collectively nothing is inside of Sequoyah101’s brain.

If Sequoyah101 gets run over by an illegal truck driver it isn’t murder. It’s just a natural event. Such is life and those are the breaks.


21 posted on 01/30/2026 9:57:36 PM PST by mitchjackson1972 (End usury - It's OK to be white - https://ussliberty.org/)
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To: Morgana
Follow the money.

Those sex changes bring a ton of money. Those Doctor Snips would sell their mothers to get a twelve-year-old boy.

Snip! Snip!


22 posted on 01/30/2026 10:54:06 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Chewbarkah

Those were my questions too. A 12 year old cannot enter into a binding contract .

EC


23 posted on 01/31/2026 5:14:55 AM PST by Ex-Con777 ("Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving." ~ David Burg)
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To: Mark

My guess is that California has more voter fraud than any state. When Democrats take over, they entrench the fraud as Virginia is trying to do right now.


24 posted on 01/31/2026 5:18:47 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Sequoyah101

Mitch bears the earmarks of a newbie troll.


25 posted on 01/31/2026 8:55:44 AM PST by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: citizen

And you bear the marks of someone suspiciously angry because I am pointing out voter fraud


26 posted on 01/31/2026 11:34:19 AM PST by mitchjackson1972 (End usury - It's OK to be white - https://ussliberty.org/)
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To: Sequoyah101

Voter density.

In Illinois, the vast majority of the state is pretty conservative - considering the land area. But the city of Chicago outweighs the rest of the state in terms of voters, and therefore rural Illinois has little to no voice in running the state.


27 posted on 01/31/2026 11:40:34 AM PST by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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To: MortMan

many states have that same problem ...


28 posted on 01/31/2026 11:44:12 AM PST by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: citizen

That is my take. Remember the bridge scene in “In Search of the Holy Grail”? Such exclusion would be a treat to see.

Newbie tolls, not very smart or they would have real jobs and lives. That still does not make them to be pitied.


29 posted on 01/31/2026 11:47:32 AM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: All

Posters such as citizen and Sequoyah101 are democratic party disinformation agents, notice anytime you point out voter fraud they immediately go “No no no, Great leader Kim got 99% of the vote in North Korea, his people clearly love him! Why else would they vote for him!?”


30 posted on 01/31/2026 2:26:28 PM PST by mitchjackson1972 (End usury - It's OK to be white - https://ussliberty.org/)
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To: Sequoyah101; citizen

Top 3 states of number of Trump voters (2024) (fec.gov)

1 Texas
6,393,597

2 Florida
6,110,125

3 California
6,081,697


31 posted on 01/31/2026 2:38:24 PM PST by mitchjackson1972 (End usury - It's OK to be white - https://ussliberty.org/)
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