Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post
As of August 1st, young girls in Oregon are now set to receive free sterilizations without any parental consent thanks to a regulation contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare).
After being finalized by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius earlier this year, the mandate allows for girls as young as 15 years old to go against parental wishes (or just not tell them) and receive sterilizations covered by their health care plan.
In fact, the teenage girls can still receive the procedure even if the parents openly object.
The bill states more specifically that all health care plans throughout the United States must provide 100% full coverage, without any cost-sharing, for not only all forms of sterilizations but all forms of contraceptives approved by the FDA for women “with reproductive capacity.†In other words, any woman with the ability to reproduce. Considering the rate puberty is rapidly accelerating in the United States, this age is very much up for debate. Girls as young as 8 are now giving birth, meaning that this law could apply to these young women who are literally “fit†to reproduce.
On average, however, the term would apply to girls around the age of 12, which is now the generally accepted age as to when girls begin to menstruate.
The consent form even allows for the possibility of a third party signer acting as an ‘interpreter’ for those who are impaired or cannot speak English. The form, which the 15 year old girls are given to sign before receiving their sterilizations, reads:
I understand that the sterilization must be considered permanent and not reversible, says this consent form. I have decided that I do not want to become pregnant, bear children or father children.
The regulation is highly similar to previous legislation mandates such as the California bill that allowed girls as young as 12 to receive the Gardasil shot without any parental consent. It also is in the same vein as the ruthless Eugenics campaigns of the 20th century that are openly admitted. In what started out as voluntary sterilizations, the U.S. government forcibly sterilized over 60,000 people between 1929 and 1974. States like North Carolina have considered paying the families of victims in monetary compensation to ‘make up’ for the government-enforced sterilization program.
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August 29, 2012 @ 11:38 pm Ted Grigoleit
I realize that the mindset of most people favors increasing the population.
However, considering that there is no shortage of people and raising children is a crap-shoot at best, this sounds like a reasonable policy. Not all children are a blessing. Sure, all babies are cute, but more and more people won’t have the financial resources to provide a good education for their numerous children, and welfare programs won’t be around much longer. So, what kind of future will they have?
August 30, 2012 @ 3:46 pm Joe Steady
Thanks for that Ted. You must not have any young daughters to think about. I am sorry for you.
September 2, 2012 @ 11:31 am Ted Grigoleit
Hi Joe,
I do.
September 16, 2012 @ 11:54 pm Fred
It’s not just the abstraction of whether “the” population should increase or decrease. It’s the govt taking sides of children against parent. It’s the Fedgov walking all over the States. It’s the irreversible cutting up of human flesh, children’s flesh, destruction of organ function, robbing of the parents’ hopes for grandchildren. It’s genocide. Against whom? Where did we give our “servant government” (whose job is to protect our life, liberty, pursuit of happiness) permission to rip out our kids’ genitals in secret?
What will be the next step? Advertising aimed at 15-year-old (and younger) girls about how wonderful sterilization is?
September 17, 2012 @ 12:06 am Fred
“Mom, Dad, I’m home. School was rough today. Tammy broke up with Billy. Oh, and I got sterilized. The school nurse said I should, because of all the money I’d save. I wasn’t sure about it, but the school nurse is really big and has a way of talking people into things, plus she was so nice to me when she put that splint on my finger last year, and I didn’t want to say no. Sterilization, that’s all about killing germs, right? Oh, and Suzy’s going steady with Sam. What’s for dinner?”