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.
The people who came up this perversion and are pushing it are graphic examples of what the Word calls “reprobation”; it is spiritual psychopathy/sociopathy and the clinical description is found in Romans 1:18-32 and II Tim. 3:1-5.
If they do not repent they will face the blazing anger of Christ Who hates those who harm and corrupt children.
In the meanwhile all that people can do is avoid those who advocate this perversion.
I feel worse for the young and future generations, who didn't ask for the abomination we're leaving them.
So that makes it better?
You disgust me.
Not the state.
Its rulers.
If residents want this, then why are their elections stolen?
That’s good. It’ll force the decent people to leave for red states. More self-secession. Shrinking population reduces electoral votes, doesn’t it? the bigger the state’s population the more ‘votes’ it gets, and vice versa, right?
Exactly like New York.
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