New York Senate Democrats have introduced Senate Bill S6103, which aims to permit any minor who is at least fourteen years of age to be immunized or put through certain surgical procedures without parental consent.
“Parents will be protesting a bill recently introduced in the New York legislature that that will allow any medical procedure or product to be given to any minor of any age without parental knowledge or consent. The demonstration will take place outside the office of Bronx Assemblymember Karines Reyes who introduced Assembly bill A6761.
The bill also allows children to automatically qualify for Medicaid to pay for any costs. State Senator Rachel May of Syracuse has introduced S8352, the identical bill in the State Senate.
‘The scope of this bill is difficult to fathom, but it calls for completely excluding parents from any knowledge of what is being done medically to their children, much less have any say over what is being done’. Said Rita Palma, Executive Director of My Kids My Choice, ‘The bill allows drugs, hospitalization, even surgery, without a parent knowing about it’.
Parents are also asking why the official description of the bill misleadingly claims that it only pertains to ‘homeless minors’ and says it only allows ‘certain’ procedures, yet the bill would apply to all minors in New York, and it covers all procedures, including drugs, hospitalization, and surgery yet appears on the State Senate website as, ‘Allows homeless youth to give effective consent to certain medical, dental, health, and hospital services; provides for insurance coverage of such health care services consented to by such youth’.
Nothing in the bill excludes children from being used in medical experiments.
If this bill is passed children of any age will be able to have healthy organs removed, but will not be able to consent to a session in a tanning salon or getting their ears pierced which are limited to adults by New York law”. -Michael Kane
While the bill’s critics have warned that, if passed, it would set a precedent for handing over parental rights to the state, one wonders if the legislators would be so eager to introduce the act if the complaint was that parents were forcing vaccines on their minor children and that the teenagers should have the legal right to refuse recommended treatments.