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.
State of Illinois moving to Insanity as the New Normal
Ill-annoy........
Why not just make it illegal to vote Republican.
They should change the definition of criminal to include politicians.
People in other countries see this chit and are horrified by what the United States has become.
We won’t be a world leader too much longer.
Let’s toss IL, CA, and NY out of the union.
Doesn’t the FBI already classify you as a terrorist if you cling to your bible?
Imagine living in a bankrupt, collapsing Satanic schlithole.
Oh, never mind.
Demonic inversion.
Why would a bankrupt collapsing failed nation that grooms & sexually mutilates children be a leader of anything?
Illinois is broke and people are moving out. It’s a hellhole seeking a fight to the bottom...
Cut’em, nut’em, drug’em up, b!tches.
Let’s start with the legislature.
Lends a new meaning to F.I.B.
Sad. I spent my first 62 1/2 years in very rural south Mercer county IL (minus about a combined 12 months of small central KS college). The people in those rural areas of IL are trapped in the democrap stranglehold of only three or four counties that rule the wide open spaces.
READ THE BILL
“Minor seeking care” means a person at least 14 years of age but less than 18 years of age who is living separate and apart from his or her parents or legal guardian, whether with or without the consent of a parent or legal guardian who is unable or unwilling to return to the residence of a parent, and managing his or her own personal affairs. “Minor seeking care”.
We are becoming Sodom and Gomorrah. Sexualizing children in the name of “equity”…that’s some F-d up stuff. What’s next? Normalizing adult sex with 12 year old kids?
We’re way beyond fixing this—there’s two options:
—civil war
—great awakening to Christ.
The latter option is the only option thathas real resolve.
Much of the US has become a reprobate society.
This is pure click-bait and misrepresents the legislation.
One option left for the normal people of Illinois, get the heck out of the madhouse.
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