SACRAMENTO, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation that makes California the first state to ban a controversial form of psychotherapy that’s aimed at making gay teenagers straight.
Effective Jan. 1, mental health practitioners are prohibited from performing sexual orientation change efforts — known as reparative or conversion therapy — for anyone under 18.
The therapies “have no basis in science or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery,” Brown said in a statement.
Mainstream associations representing psychiatrists and psychologists have dismissed reparative therapy in recent decades. A number of mental health associations in California — including the state’s Board of Behavorial Sciences, the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the California Psychological Association — supported the legislation.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57523211/california-bans-gay-cure-therapy/
Apparently, liberals love the idea of interfering in the doctor/patient relationship, except when they don’t.
If a kid wants to not be gay, I should hope they could get professional help for that. Apparently, abortions you can get in California, but if you want this treatment, you have to go out of state.
I’d love to see the Supreme Court rule on whether therapy is a fundamental right and that kids have the right to get whatever therapy they want without government intrusion.