Posted on 06/18/2019 1:27:59 AM PDT by LibWhacker
The Republican governor of Vermont signed legislation this week which makes it legal for minors to obtain an abortion without parental consent. Vermont law also allows non-physicians, including registered nurse practitioners, to perform abortions. To put in perspective how radical the state's abortion standards are, consider that parents have to give their child written or verbal permission to obtain so much as an ibuprofen pill from the school nurse, but do not have to approve of their daughter's obtaining a life-altering decision like abortion under GOP Gov. Phil Scott's new law.
“Like many Vermonters, I have consistently supported a woman’s right to choose, which is why today I signed H.57 into law,” Gov. Scott said in a statement Monday regarding the bill.
H.57 recognizes abortion "as a fundamental right" of "the freedom of reproductive choice" prohibits "public entities from interfering with or restricting the right of an individual to terminate the individual’s pregnancy."
The bill does not include an age limit on which individuals can obtain an abortion. In fact, while the bill was going through the state legislature, several representatives tried adding amendments which would have specified that those under 18-years-old would need permission from their parents and legal guardians before obtaining an abortion.
"Rep. Anne Donahue (R-Northfield) proposed an amendment that would have required parental notification before minors can receive an abortion," according to Seven Days Vermont.
"This is not about limiting access. This is about protecting children,” Donahue said. However, her amendment was rejected.
Why? According to, Rep. Ann Pugh (D-South Burlington), that the problem was moot because "the House Committee on Human Services had voted 10-1 against a measure involving notification of a minor's parents." She also "argued that confidentially is vital to ensuring adolescent access to medical care."
The final version of the bill which Gov. Scott signed did not include any provisions about notification of a minor's parent before that child received an abortion. Yet, according to HealthVermont.gov, students under the age of 18 need permission from parents to take prescribed and non-prescribed medicine on school grounds under state law.
The primary reason for requiring parental permission for headache medicine, according to the Vermont Department of Health/Agency of Education is to "assure that medications administered to students are done so in a way that assures safety and compliance with state law and school policies and procedures.
Vermont's bill is arguably the most radical in the nation and essentially allows for abortion without limits, but many other state laws just like it are popping up across the nation. Maine and Illinois signed similar laws into place this week as progressives, and GOP pro-choicers like Gov. Phil Scott, seek to enshrine abortion without limits as an inalienable right in the country.
The governor of Vermont is a Republican? He must be a Republican in the same sense that G. W. Bush and Jeb Bush and George Will are Republicans.
The Republican Party is dead. Other than as a means of collecting funds from unsuspecting rubes, it serves no purpose. We need a great leader to drive a stake in its heart and send it to its grave.
Send in the trial lawyers against the school and State when a legal abortionist eventually botches an abortion as they are known to do.
A minor cannot sign a legal release for medical procedures.
So if there's a rapist involved, is the school district protecting the rapist as well?!
Depending on the age of the minor, she can’t consent to sex, either. If she’s too young, we’re talking rape as well.
Refuse public school and their NEA, ACLU, STDs, policies. Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Children are a heritage of the Lord. Don’t give them to a government system that has no respect for Him or His precepts.
He’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a total commie. There are no “republicans” in VT politics.
Amen to that. After Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell’s performances and include this knuckle head, it is time to start a Constitution party.
As Republican as Jim Jeffords.
Abortions and dickchopping are done to totally destroy any idea of parental authority and/or rights. The state wants to eliminate the family and especially the set of values that the family has given to the child.
The parents remain nominally parents, so they can keep footing the bills, while the state assumes the real role of parent.
Totalitarian control, right in the USA.
Hasn’t enrollment in VT publik skrewls been declining for decades? While costs soar? Guess the good news is that there are fewer and fewer kids available for the Educational Industrial Complex to abuse.
Yes thank’s to Mean Dean and his fabled Act 60. Nothing but a sheep shearing scam that has led to ballooning property taxes, demographic flight, and a huge pool of funds for the radical lesbian leftist (but I repeat) legislature to use as they wish to promote their ultimate welfare fantasies with full support by Comrade Scott. (against the state constitution by the way)
I was looking at property for sale in VT not too long ago.
Looks to me like there’s an awful lotta high-end real estate up for sale in VT.
Are the wealthier folks bugging out?
They will twist and triangulate their rotten souls into pretzels to protect and promote the unholy worshipping of abortion by any means. Pure evil.
Oh, as to the schools. Yes your comment contains some truths. Where the dichotomy exists is public education in VT ranks at or near the top nationwide (I know that’s not saying much). To explain this dynamic would require a long diatribe. This is one of the things that bypasses the progressive communist agenda for now as there are not the resources to create that change for the worse (not enough bodies, too large an agenda).
People tend to wander from place to place as they get older. We have the “retirement exodus” here. People who retire from the university will pick a location like Florida because they are tired of the cold. Alumni who retire from elsewhere will retire to here because of the sports, arts and to “get out of the heat”.
And interestingly, Vermont is an Unrestricted legal carry state. Never could figure that one.
Republicans are only Pro-Life when they see political advantage in it.
It’s cyclical. VT real estate runs in patterns. During Obama’s reign of terror there was no place for investor types to park money. A lot of high end vacation properties were built without regard to the NJ style tax rates or the cost factors such as energy (no NG pipelines, 37 cents p/kw electricity). Now those people are bailing, especially as they age. As my neighbor says “Vermont ain’t for sissies”. There’s not a lot of good days here.
People become bored with their expensive toys when they realize for the same money they can have an appreciating asset on the Jersey shore, or Virginia for nearly the same money as a stagnating asset in VT. VT real estate is barely a “break even” proposition. Construction costs are high, return on investment low.
We run Hot and cold cycles, as a minor developer an builder I’ve lived through this cycle 4 or 5 times. There’s much more to this dynamic, but that’s all for now. If you have real interest P.M. me here and we can talk.
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