Sterilization for 15 Yr Olds Needs No Parental Consent Under ObamaCare - Effective 8-1-12

Maggie's Notebook ^ | 8-27-12 | Maggie@MaggiesNotebook

[maggiesnotebook]

This literally made me physically ill when I read this headline: Obamacare Begins Child Sterilization Without Parental Consent. According to the guidelines of ObamaCare, children as young as 15 years old can be sterilized at no cost, and with no parental consent. I assume this means both boys and girls. If a 15 year old wants to be sexually active, how attractive might sterilization be? No worries - forever, and who wants kids any way. I can see the 15-year-old brain processing it in a quick minute. I believe more 15 year olds, and even 16 and 17 year olds might lean to this option thinking it uncomplicates life for them and bawling babies are a nuisance anyway - who wants them.

The "Required Health Plan Coverage Guidelines" set forth by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states: "Non-grandfathered plans and issuers are required to provide coverage without cost-sharing consistent with these guidelines in the first plan year.that begins on or after August 1, 2012.All [FDA] approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity."

Under Oregon State Law, the state's revised statutes (ORS) defines "informed consent" for 15-year-olds independently pursuing reproductive sterilization as being "(a) Based upon a full understanding of the nature and consequences of sterilization pursuant to information requirements set forth in ORS 436.225(1); (b) Given by an individual competent to make such a decision; and (c) Wholly voluntary and free from coercion, express or implied."

So you need parental consent to contract a state-sanctioned marriage under the age of 18 in the U.S., but you, all by yourself, can give full consent to the irreversibility of sterilization at 15? Chances are, you do not even know your future spouse, yet you're already determining his or her fate as well?

Oregon's consent form, specific for the sterilizations of 15 to 20-year-olds, reads, "I understand that the sterilization must be considered permanent and not reversible. I have decided that I do not want to become pregnant, bear children or father children." In the case that the patient does not speak or read English, an interpreter is permitted to assist the patient "to the best of [his] knowledge and belief" in the signing away of the patient's reproductive capacity. Source: Catholic Online

Most days now, the outrage gets to be way to much. I pray it erupts like a monstrous rush of hot, molten volcanic lava on election day, November 6th. This evil went to work in Oregon on August 1st. How many young boys and girls will be victims before this can be reversed? If my 15-year-old daughter took this action in secret, I can't even begin to tell you what I would do to some very specific persons before someone put me in chains for the rest of my life.

[jonrick46]

To sterilize oneself to become more promiscuous is very shortsighted. When one discovers such promiscuity comes with the consequence of disease, they will learn the folly of their behavior.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

You have to pass the bill to find out what's in it.

The 15-year-old-no-parental-consent issue here is an Oregon state law, not ObamaCare.

[maggiesnotebook]

Conscience of a Conservative, the law was written by DHHS. Oregon is implementing it.

[maggiesnotebook]

jonrick46, a 15 yr old doing this would likely have little parental guidance or involvement in their lives. “Folly” is a word someone this young knows nothing about.