Bill would allow STD treatment for 12-year-olds without parental consent

By Tim Page

A Senate bill introduced on April 27 would allow 12-year-olds to request medical care to prevent STDs, without parental consent.

S.151 would “allow a minor 12 years of age or older to consent to medical care for the prevention of a sexually transmitted infection,” which would further remove parents from direct involvement in the health and wellbeing of their children.

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Sen. Ginny Lyons, D-Chittenden

The bill would require informing parents only if hospitalization is needed: “The physician shall notify the parent, parents, or legal guardian of the minor if the condition of the minor child requires immediate hospitalization for treatment of the sexually transmitted infection.”

The bill would also ”require the Green Mountain Care Board to review health care contracts and fee schedules between health plans and health care providers to increase transparency in health care,” “increase primary care payments and spending and provide an exemption from prior authorization requirements,” and “adjust the age at which an individual’s colorectal cancer screenings are covered by health insurance.”

In addition it “makes certain temporary prohibitions on pharmacy benefit managers permanent,” “modifies the nomination and appointment process for members of the Green Mountain Care Board,” “adds new filing and reporting requirements for health insurers,” and “would require the Department of Financial Regulation to submit an analysis to the Green Mountain Care Board regarding hospital budget proposals.”

The bill was sponsored by Sen. Virginia Lyons (D-Chittenden Southeast) and was referred to the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare, which she chairs.

Guy Page is publisher of the Vermont Daily Chronicle. Reprinted with permission.

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16 thoughts on “Bill would allow STD treatment for 12-year-olds without parental consent

  1. Well there is the term TERF’s, now there is a term TERD’s…..it’s really tough to keep up with all these name changes…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERxDQfGzjfw&t=456s

    I’m surprised Vermont is not on the cutting edge of this, seems the Scandinavians beat us out on this one….we’ll have to settle for second place, but we could be first in America!

    Coming to a school near you….soon!

  2. There is a lot more going on here than meets the eye.

    They are elevating the status, you could say, of KIDS.
    Because they are working towards legalizing pedophilia.
    Don’t you see the grooming, the sexualization going on of kids?
    There is a reason for this!
    Why do you think they are teaching kids about sex and genitalia at 3 and 4 years old!?

    Eventually they’ll be able to say “Well, they are allowed to do this, this and this, so they should now be able to do this:_____” [insert having sex with adults].

    THAT this where this is going..
    Laura Ingraham did an entire radio show about this many years ago.. about how they are doing all that we are seeing now to set the table for the legalization of pedophilia.

    So be aware of the Big Picture.

    Meanwhile in Reality: Twelve year olds are still often watching cartoons, girls only just stopped playing with their dolls and many boys are still into their trucks, they don’t clean their room, and need to be reminded to brush their teeth and comb their hair.

    The point to truly rise up is here, yes, they are really after our kids now- and it’s not new, it’s just getting more and more bold and out in the open.
    Where is your red line? we are here today because too many people don’t even seem to have one.

  3. As I commented to Sharon Toborg on VDC: Thank you for pointing out 18 V.S.A. § 4226. It is yet another example of our legislated dystopia.

    As Ms. Toborg demonstrated, the legislative language in Sen. Ginny Lyons proposal already exists.

    “(2) Consent under this section shall not be subject to disaffirmance due to minority of the person consenting. The consent of the parent or legal guardian of a minor consenting under this section shall not be necessary to authorize care as described in this subsection.
    (b) The parent, parents, or legal guardian shall be notified by the physician if the condition of a minor child requires immediate hospitalization as the result of drug usage, alcoholism, or for the treatment of a venereal disease.”

    That it ‘is already law’ emphasizes the ignorance of Vermonters in this regard (me included), not the moral justification or efficacy of its language. In other words, this law may mean well. But it, too, is poorly worded and should be amended.

    Example: “(a)(1) If a minor 12 years of age or older is suspected to be ……..”.

    Suspected by who? Anyone? 18 V.S.A. § 4226 does not specify.

    18 V.S.A. § 4226 was added to VT Statutes 50 years ago and wasn’t amended until 2017. Furthermore, the legislation amending the law was one of many changes proposed and passed by Vermont’s progressive legislators under the collective anosmic noses of the electorate that year. After all, there were 1772 bills introduced by the VT legislature in 2017 in what amounts to an ongoing denial of service attack (i.e., a flood of legislation to the extent that no one person can assimilate or respond within a reasonable time frame).

    Lord only knows how many of these insidious, albeit well intentioned, laws exist. As the saying goes: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

  4. Merely proposing this bill proves how truly evil Democrats really are. Evil, dumb, stupid – all you can think. This Bill is the “Bud Light” moment for VT – of the insane, unstable people running the show.. Here are some thoughts from a great Op-Ed today…kind of off topic – but exposes truth of so much evil Democrats have championed:

    “For fifty years, Democrats told American women that men were superfluous to raising children, but now that’s moot because men can have babies, genetic men are real women, and prepubescent children are mature enough to consent to sex, and have sex change operations….For decades, Democrats told black Americans that Democrats were their champions when even a modicum of research would reveal that it was the Democrats who started the Civil War to keep blacks in chains, fought the 13th, 14th, and15th Amendments, started the KKK, wrote Jim Crow laws, and filibustered the Civil Rights Act. It was the Democrats whose policies destroyed the nuclear black family and eviscerated cities like Detroit, Chicago, and others that were once engines of black advancement. …it was Democrats who told blacks that America is a systemically racist nation where they had no chance for success, sparking the worst racial tension in America in two generations. Further proving their disdain for black voters, they tell black Americans their lives are at risk because of racist whites, even when every black person in America knows they have far more to fear from black males, ….Democrats constantly tell the middle class they’re being shafted because the rich didn’t pay their fair share. In reality, the top 10% of income earners pay 71% of all federal income taxes while the bottom 50% pay a mere 3%.”

  5. The Democrat from chittenden county, Ms Lyons puts into a bill that is about medical payments, health insurers,and pharmacists contracts the insane notion that 12-year-olds with STDs ( meaning they are sexual) can get medical coverage without telling their .parents. the bill does allow for notifying the parents when the child is hospitalized! Well, that’s a way too late in the health needs of the child. How outrageous! Parents definitely need to know and this bill should not be agreed to in the Senate.

    • Time to pack there things and send them down river.

      In the lobbyist and non-profit world VERMONT is known as the state they can get anything passed in. Make no mistake, this is not a Vermont, plan, this is being rolled out nationwide, we just get first dibs on the sexual perversion.

      It is nation wide, the porn industry, at the start of the pandemic launched and is still massively promoting intermfamilial sex. Then they lock us down with our smart phones, put this in young kids minds with the most diabolical propaganda/ mind control device ever invented.

      It’s all planned, carefully orchestrated, with massive coordination……

      This ain’t, I can assure you a Vermont isolated event.

  6. Where and who twisted these liberal minded people up? They thinking process is so deranged. These damn liberals need to be removed…. This erosion of the family unit needs to stop. She must be a biden lover, erode the family, kids don’t belong to the family, they belong to everyone…….

  7. My God. Where are any liberal morals, integrity.. to remove the family & parent input…and Liberals being insanely focused on sexual diseases – for TWELVE YEAR OLDS.. Is that REALLY one of VT’s greatest legislative issues? They haven’t even reached PUBERTY yet…and yet, Liberals are fixated on underage sex – and 12 year olds? It’s disgusting, immoral…. It’s Biblical….VT has indeed now descended into Democrat induced, Hell…. “Sodom & Gomorrah”.

    If this does not get you to seriously consider leaving VT…then stay at your own peril…you will end up paying thru the nose. They want your money to do all this stuff…..”VTGON”

  8. These regressives are insane. They are destroying Vermont. They are making national news and not in a good way. We are in the Age of Insanity.

  9. So when uncle Bob molests Jane or Dick they can get it treated and no one is the wiser. Thanks . Oh and then Jane can get an abortion. While Dick is so devastated by the act he goes and get “gender affirming care” so that he get it just like Jane will. Then he is just as special. You people are just sick sick sick. Satan must be proud.

    • That is exactly what I was thinking. They don’t care about protecting kids at all, they just want to ruin the child parent relationship so they can step in and control the kids they way they want to.

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