Posted on 05/10/2023 10:26:05 AM PDT by Morgana
Ignoring massive public opposition, Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee signed a radical bill Tuesday to allow shelters to hide runaway children from their parents without any allegations of abuse and allow them to have taxpayer-funded, elective abortions and sex-change treatments.
The Post Millennial reports nearly 4,700 people signed up to oppose state Senate Bill 5599 during a Senate hearing in February. Parents also organized protests at the state capitol in Olympia, and Republican lawmakers unanimously opposed the bill, according to CBN.
The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Marko Liias, D-Edmonds, passed the Democrat-controlled state legislature anyway, and Inslee signed it in a small ceremony Tuesday.
Scheduled to go into effect in July, the legislation allows runaway children as young as 13 to stay in licensed youth shelters without their parents’ knowledge – even if there are no signs of abuse. Until now, state law required shelters to notify parents within 72 hours, My Northwest reports. Shelters also can help minors get taxpayer-funded abortions and sex-change hormones and surgeries without telling their parents.
According to the Post Millennial, the bill says shelters do not have to notify parents if the child has a “compelling reason” not to, such as “seeking placement in a host home to receive protected health care services.” These “services” include elective abortions and sex-change surgeries and hormones.
There does not have to be any evidence or even allegations of abuse for the shelter to hide information from parents.
“Among its many flaws, the bill assumes families that don’t ‘affirm’ a child’s short-term desires are being abusive. Wrong!” said state Rep Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen, in a statement. “Sometimes love requires parents to not affirm their child’s whims. Loving parents guide their children as they grow. Sometimes that means saying ‘no.’”
Walsh said parents are the ones who have the primary responsibility to raise their children, not the government.
Others warned that the bill applies to children from other states, too, not just Washington.
“The only thing SB 5599 would do is cause harm by driving a wedge between vulnerable kids and their parents, at a time when a teen lacks the perception and judgment to make critical life-altering decisions,” state Senate Republican Leader John Braun said in a statement. “A parent may not even know why the child ran away and could involve law enforcement or other groups in a desperate search… all the while going through an unnecessary emotional nightmare, imagining the worst about what might have happened.”
Wide-spread opposition to the bill did not just come from conservative and pro-life parents and organizations. Even parents from the LGBTQ community testified in opposition to the bill, Braun said.
According to the Post Millennial: “Efforts to repeal the legislation have already begun, with some representatives planning to turn this into a referendum for the November election. The new law is set to begin at the end of July unless enough valid signatures – approximately 162,000- are gathered to put it on hold until a statewide vote.”
Inslee signed four more four pro-abortion bills into law in April, including one to protect abortionists who kill unborn babies and another to allow the state to sell dangerous abortion pills.
Washington state law allows unborn babies to be aborted for basically any reason up to birth and forces state taxpayers to pay for elective abortions. In 2020, 16,050 unborn babies were aborted, according to the state health department.
Good Lord!
Negligence. Impeach, remove, bare bottom public stockade.
We have evil demons in charge in many states. No hyperbole. Evil. Demons.
Is it really any mystery why this country isn’t mentioned in Revelations?
Wide open spiritual warfare. What is really scary is that it will likely get much worse. Fight and pray.
That mega - caldera in Yellowstone comes to mind.
Still gonna need about 1M signatures within 270 days.
And since most if not all of these actions will be committed in the Public School system by Public Employee’s, It should be a FELONY and Grounds for Removing the Children from the Homes of every last Public Employee in the State that doesn’t send their school aged children to their local Public School.
PUT THEM IN PRISON and Their CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE
this state is so corrupt, they will just throw out some of the signatures.
Am sure there are many good people there, but why are Washington and Oregon so creepy? The euthanasia cult seemed to spring up from Oregon.
The law is illegal and should be challenged in federal court.
The US Marshals should arrest these groomers for federal child abduction, mayhem and illegal mutilation of a child.
Its one thing to give the states control over abortion and a completely different thing to remove parental consent of minors for medical procedures.
I’m willing to bet that this is even a violation of international law. Maybe the UN could do something useful for once.
I doubt the legislature would impeach him for signing the bill they themselves sent to his desk.
Pure EVIL.
Perhaps the tribulation as already started and the people who predicted the rapture would occur after were right.
Sick and morally bankrupt.
Well, that’s it then. If we’re not going to protect and wrestle back our children, violently if need be, from these monsters then there’s no point in leaving our borders to do battle with any foreign enemies ever again.
They are the state's problem now, not mine.
A State government devoted to secret raping of children, NEEDS secret abortions for children.
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