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Illinois Bill Changes Definition Of ‘Abused Child’ To Include Kids Whose Parents Object To Abortion, Transgender Hormones And Surgeries
The Daily Wire ^ | February 21, 2024 | Virginia Kruta

Posted on 02/24/2024 8:21:50 AM PST by Twotone

A recently-introduced bill in the state of Illinois would change the definition of “abused child” to include minors whose parents object to their children receiving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, transgender surgeries, and abortions.

House Bill 4876, which was introduced in early February, also shields doctors from liability if they prescribe such treatments to minors who do not have parental consent — and empowers the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to step in and, if they deem it necessary, remove children from their biological parents based on the new definition of an “abused child.”

According to the legislation, which imbues minors with the same legal status as adults with regard to consenting to medical treatments and procedures related to abortion and gender transition, “consent to the performance of abortion services and gender-affirming services executed by a minor is not voidable because of such minority.”

Additionally, doctors who prescribe and perform such treatments and procedures are directed only to make a reasonable effort to ensure that the minor in question has an understanding of the risks and benefits — and are exempted from any liability, either civil or criminal, for their participation in the minor’s treatment.

According to the bill, “a health care professional rendering abortion services and gender-affirming services shall not incur civil or criminal liability for failure to obtain valid consent or professional discipline for failure to obtain valid consent if the health care professional relied in good faith on representations made by the minor.”

Parents could find themselves in even more trouble if DCFS finds any such abuse allegations to be warranted: Illinois law already classifies child abuse — depending upon the nature and severity of the abuse — as a criminal offense ranging from a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a $2,500 fine to a felony that can carry up to $25,000 in fines and 15 years behind bars.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: antichristianhate; babykillers; childabuse; children; dcfs; dcfsthugsarefairgame; deathtogroomers; doxdcfs; groomerbill; homofascism; illinois; kidnapping; mutilation; parentalrights; touchmykidyoudie; transgender
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To: Zuriel

Same thing in Nevada. Two counties control the rest of the state. Mrs rktman suggests one county, one electoral vote. Sorry to disappoint..........


21 posted on 02/24/2024 9:02:22 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: TexasGator

I don’t know what you are reading but this is what I found:

Bill Title: Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provides that “abused child” means a child whose parent or immediate family member, or any person responsible for the child’s welfare, or any individual residing in the same home as the child, or a paramour of the child’s parent denies the child access to necessary medical care, including, but not limited to, primary care services, abortion services, or gender-affirming services. Amends the Consent by Minors to Health Care Services Act. Specifies that consent to the performance of abortion services and gender-affirming services executed by a minor is not voidable because of such minority. Provides that a health care professional rendering abortion services and gender-affirming services shall not incur civil or criminal liability for failure to obtain valid consent or professional discipline for failure to obtain valid consent if the health care professional relied in good faith on representations made by the minor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-07 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4876 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4876-Introduced.html

https://legiscan.com/IL/text/HB4876/id/2916901


22 posted on 02/24/2024 9:03:26 AM PST by Twotone (We have to stop punishing ourselves for considering things that once seemed crazy. - B. Weinstein)
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To: Twotone

“...same legal status as adults with regard to consenting to medical treatments and procedures related to abortion and gender transition...”


Why only these two; are they extra special? Why not piercings, tattoos, marriage, and other things that require parental consent?


23 posted on 02/24/2024 9:08:57 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: Zuriel

The same occurs in Michigan, but the h3llholes are more spread out. We are forced to bow to the fraud and “voting” of Detroit, Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor.


24 posted on 02/24/2024 9:09:02 AM PST by madison10
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To: Twotone

The Democratic Party has become a deranged sex cult, which it is now attempting to establish as the state religion.


25 posted on 02/24/2024 9:17:52 AM PST by sphinx
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To: TexasGator

Did you come from behind, or under that rock?


26 posted on 02/24/2024 9:27:17 AM PST by Herodes
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To: Twotone

There will be a ton of suing in the future because of all the lives government has destroyed


27 posted on 02/24/2024 9:28:46 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Twotone

I bet that rich boy governor can’t wait to sign this one.


28 posted on 02/24/2024 9:30:23 AM PST by Baladas
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To: Twotone

Right. So which red states will find the intestinal fortitude to respond in kind by changing their definitions of “abused child” to include minors whose parents assist in or agree to their children receiving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, transgender surgeries, and abortions.


29 posted on 02/24/2024 9:32:43 AM PST by cross_bearer_02
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To: Twotone

The democrats are doing everything they can to destroy the family. Correction: the CHRISTIAN family. The middle-eastern family with 4 “wives” is not the one they want to destroy. In fact, they are promoting it.


30 posted on 02/24/2024 9:35:24 AM PST by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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To: Twotone
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31 posted on 02/24/2024 9:46:33 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: TexasGator

This is pure click-bait and misrepresents the legislation.

\%

Says you,,,,.

You , imho,

misrepresent a moral human...

says me .

Now go collect your narrative control cubicle doughnut pay.


32 posted on 02/24/2024 10:57:00 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: packagingguy

“We won’t be a world leader too much longer.”

That really happened over 3yrs ago, when the criminal Bidet&Co Regime took over.


33 posted on 02/24/2024 11:27:05 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: rktman

The county in IL that I lived for so long was next to Rock Island county, which for many years was the IL half of ‘the world capital of farm machinery manufacturing’. Along with the Rock Island Arsenal, the union employees of that metro utterly dominated that county. My county, though very rural, had enough residents that worked those union jobs to occasionaly flip the county board power.

The unions have lost numbers over the years, but the large modern machinery has cut the number of farm families as well, so the margins of elections still is a flip flop at times.

From the mid 80s until his death, Lane Evans (San Fran style D) was our Rep. Aside from his support for veterans, he was as lib as they come. (He was a VN era vet, though never in VN, iirc).

Nearly all of his campaign funds came from out of state. But since he was D, he kept getting moderate D votes. He was smart enough to not be loud and outspoken, so he gave the appearance of being levelheaded. That probably got him some Rino votes.


34 posted on 02/24/2024 11:36:46 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Twotone

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exiting the town


35 posted on 02/24/2024 11:59:18 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Twotone

The Left must groom our children with their propaganda in order to survive and endure. But first, they have to remove the parents from the picture.


36 posted on 02/24/2024 12:00:32 PM PST by The_Harlequin (…the time will arrive when you will learn to judge for yourself of what is going on in the world, wi)
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To: Twotone

The state will raise your children for you comrade. The state WILL. Got it, comrade!?


37 posted on 02/24/2024 12:04:18 PM PST by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: Twotone

Anyone who isn’t a libtard will be prosecuted so you may as well move to a red state and get ready for the split


38 posted on 02/24/2024 12:16:02 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Twotone

Any society that condones this progressive abuse of children deserves to fall!


39 posted on 02/24/2024 12:34:16 PM PST by ohioman
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To: butlerweave

No, those of us that still live here call it HELLINOIS.


40 posted on 02/24/2024 12:48:20 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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