Posted on 04/07/2021 7:19:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Fox News's Tucker Carlson grilled Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson for vetoing the Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act, which restricts “gender affirming” chemical or surgical treatments for those under the age of 18, regardless of parental consent.
Though Hutchinson did sign recent legislation that protects women’s sports and allows doctors to refuse patients for moral or religious reasons, he criticized the SAFE Act as a "vast government overreach" and "a product of the cultural war in America." He was particularly concerned because it applies to patients currently in the middle of treatment.
Proponents of the legislation challenged the notion that such practices are medical treatments, instead referring to them as "experimentation on children with long-term health effects."
On Tuesday, the Arkansas Republican legislature voted to override Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s veto -- in the House, by a vote of 71 to 24, and 25 to 8 in the Senate.
Speaking to Carlson about his veto, Hutchinson again argued the legislation was too broad.
Hutchinson accused Carlson of misrepresenting the bill, explaining: "If this had been a bill that simply prohibited chemical castration, I would have signed the bill."
Hutchinson added that he would have supported legislation that restricted only gender-confirming surgery, which currently is not performed on minors in the state.
Instead, he said, the bill presented to him was "was overbroad, it was extreme. It went far beyond what you just said.
"This is the first law in the nation that invokes the state between medical decisions, parents who consent to that and the decision of the patient. And so, this goes way too far. And in fact, it doesn't even have a grandfather clause that those young people that are under hormonal treatment," he argued. (Fox News)
Carlson challenged Hutchinson, saying he seems unaware about what these treatments do to children.
"With respect, it doesn't sound like you have studied it very deeply," he said. "I mean, this is an emerging field. There's not a lot of research. But the research that exists suggests the depression and the urge to self-harm and suicide is a component, it's a side effect of taking these hormones."
The host asked how that's "responsible medicine" and why he would support doing that to children.
While Hutchinson acknowledged there are "unknowns," he insisted he studied the bill at length and spoke with experts and those in the faith community
Carlson wondered how his position is a "conservative value."
"We are talking about minors, children here. There are all kinds of things in Arkansas, kids in every state are not allowed to do. Get married, drink a beer, get a tattoo. Why do you think it's important for conservatives to make certain that children can block their puberty, be chemical castrated, why is that a conservative value?"
Hutchinson defended his position from a limited government standpoint.
"Are we, as a party abandoning a limited role of government and saying we are going to invoke the government decision-making over and above physicians, over and above healthcare, over and above parents and say you can't do that?" Hutchinson wondered.
Carlson also pressed the governor about corporate influence over his decision, which Hutchinson denied.
"Governor, with respect, I am skeptical that not a single corporation in the state of Arkansas has weighed in with you one way or the other on this bill. I am skeptical," the host replied.
Hutchinson sought to shift the conversation back to his argument that he was aligned with the conservative value of limited role of government.
'We don't have to invoke ourselves in every societal position out there. Let's limit the role of government. Let parents and doctors make decisions,' he said.
Tucker pushed back: 'Then why don't we allow 18-year-olds to drink beer in Arkansas? Why don't we allow them to get tattoos? Why don't we allow 15-year-olds to get married?
'You have vetoed a bill that would have protected children from a life altering permanent procedure that has effects we can only guess at. But the early indication is they are very serious and very negative in some cases.'
Hutchinson responded: 'These are difficult decisions. You want to listen to the medical professionals, to professional counselors, to parents? Or do you want to leave all of these decisions to the legislators that come from all different kinds of backgrounds?
'Yes, they are elected to represent you, but they do not necessarily make the right judgments for parents and for doctors in the most sensitive issues.' (Daily Mail)
Watch the segment below:
RINO ALERT: ‘Republican’ Asa Hutchinson defends allowing children to undergo transgender medical procedures pic.twitter.com/QUAeio54EO— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) April 7, 2021
He kept citing “limited gov’t” and the decision of the parents and the doctors, as though the parents aren’t the groomers and protagonists in this horror story, who search out sympathetic, hack “doctors” willing to play along.
Weak.
RE: He kept citing “limited gov’t” and the decision of the parents and the doctors,
I’m just curious — speaking of decision of doctors ... does his state allow doctors to prescribe Ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 WITHOUT FEAR OF LICENSE BEING REVOKED?
If not, then he is being inconsistent.
I’m glad Tucker’s calling these “phony” conservatives out. Why does everyone seem to be drifting to the left? I’m sure someone is pulling his strings and these people need to be exposed.
So, Asa Hutchinson would be fine with Female Genital Mutilation because he doesn’t want to interfere with parents’ decisions?
Honestly, I would go way beyond ending this sort of self mutilation - I would expel the medical personnel that was willing to perform it from my state. They can go work in California.
There is a fear of the left, in our culture and politics. There is a fear of being the target of leftists, of being canceled in this cancel culture.
Include among parents and hack doctors drug companies salivating over people with lifelong drug dependencies to maintain the “trans”formation.
I was amazed how weak the Governors arguments were. I am a strong small-government conservative, but that has to be the weakest argument of all time against permanently altering the body of a child. It left me wondering what the real reason was for the veto. His arguments didn’t add up at all.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s veto of the Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act essentially gave aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States.
There is a type of person who could walk through Auschwitz and see nothing wrong. They wouldn’t even notice the piles of corpses. These are the people who enable evil by their inability to face up to it. It’s easier to pretend that everything is fine.
But another question is why does the medical industry so easily do horrible things to people based on nothing but speculation? The black men who were allowed to suffer from syphilis weren’t harmed by special Nazi doctors. The doctors were just normal doctors. Yet they were very willing to experiment on innocent people.
The same thing occurred at John Hopkins in the 50s when doctors were experimenting with changing the sex of children. Today we have this gender bending cult and once again there is no problem finding doctors to commit the most gross atrocities.
The only opposition seems to come from lay persons. I don’t see many medicos standing up to it. Apparently medicine as a rule is fine with atrocities.
We have a very sick society. And the medical profession is in the forefront of making it so.
Whole lot of sick freaks out there.
Me too, the Governor looked foolish, he should have had Sarah Sanders on as well.
It’s genital mutilation, NOT “gender-confirming surgery”.
I watched it and Tucker was on an agenda. His questions were answered but he kept calling the governor a liar.
Hutchinson came across as more of a looney libertarian than a conservative.
I totally disagree with the transgender agenda and giving these drugs to kids. However, Asa had a point about the government outlawing a medical treatment decision.
Guess I don’t like eating our own over one decision.
OTOH I consider the treatments to be child abuse.
If you are a male who believes with every fiber of his being that he is female, you need therapy, not surgery.
Not Asa’s first stumble....he’s fairly uniparty
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