WND.com - Bill Gives 12-Year-Olds Authority on Medical Treatment

By Michael Carl, WND.com

A bill on its way to the full California Senate will bypass parents and give complete authority to children as young as 12 years old regarding medical treatment decisions for major infections and sexually transmitted diseases. . . .

However, American Center for Law and Justice Executive Director Jordan Sekulow contends the short bill is clearly designed to bypass parental rights.

"It's one of those examples where you can fundamentally alter a parent's rights without ever saying parents," Sekulow explained.

"It would open up a precedent if this were applied to a whole host of different areas where you just [hand over] those rights to kids. If a kid doesn't like his parents' choices, they can start relying on the state for that as well," he said. . . .

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