Albany’s warfare towards dad and mom’ proper to manage, and even know, what medical procedures are achieved to our kids continues with Meeting Invoice A6761 (Karines Reyes, D-Bronx). Thus far most of those payments solely allowed for vaccines to be given to minors with out parental consent, however A6761 cuts to a core objective of the medical providers and merchandise business: it fully eliminates dad and mom’ proper to make medical selections for his or her youngsters. Kids of any age might be given medicine, together with psychiatric medicine, vaccines, dental procedures, hospitalization, and surgical procedure with out parental information or consent, and permits Medicaid funds to pay for something that’s achieved to the kid. That is merely the worst youngsters’s well being invoice ever.
A6761 proposes a brand new paragraph for Public Well being regulation Part 2504,
“8. Any individual, together with a minor, who comprehends the necessity for, the character of and the moderately foreseeable dangers and advantages concerned in any contemplated medical, dental, well being and/or hospital providers and any alternate options thereto, could give efficient consent to such providers for themselves, and the consent of no different individual shall be mandatory. The commissioner is allowed to promulgate guidelines and rules essential to effectuate the provisions of this subdivision.”
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Please click on HERE to ship a message to your Assemblymember expressing your opposition to A6761.
And please name your Assemblymember and politely let the staffer know you need your Assemblymember to oppose this radically harmful invoice.
The next legislators, together with, sadly, Meeting Well being Committee Chair Amy Paulin, have co-sponsored A6761. Please name them and politely ask that they rethink their help.
Karines Reyes, Sponsor, (718) 931-2620, (518) 455-5102
Any Paulin, Chair of the Meeting Well being Committee, (914) 723-1115, (518) 455-4292
Linda Rosenthal, (212) 873-6368, (518) 455-5802
Andrew Hevesi, (718) 263-5595, (518) 455-4296
The Official Description of A6761 is deceptive
The official description of the invoice claims that it, “Permits homeless youth to provide efficient consent to sure medical, dental, well being, and hospital providers, gives for insurance coverage protection of such well being care providers consented to be such youth.”
However Albany handed a regulation final 12 months (A9604/S8937), in lower than 10 weeks from introduction to passage by each homes, that went into impact in March 2023, that permits homeless and runaway minors to make medical selections with out parental information or consent.
The actual-world impact of A9604/S8937 is that oldsters misplaced all rights to make medical selections for his or her youngsters, and even know what’s being achieved to our kids, if the kid both runs away from dwelling or the household turns into homeless.
Opposite to the representations made by proponents of this invoice, New York regulation already allowed for physicians to deal with runaway youth if the kid’s well being is in peril and a father or mother can’t be reached, New York Public Well being Legislation, Paragraph 4. This invoice didn’t even make it to our consideration since we don’t monitor homeless and runaway points, however clearly, we should always have.
So if runaway youth are already allowed to get wanted healthcare, what was the purpose for A9604/S8937? A celebratory press launch issued by the Authorized Support Society following passage of the invoice within the New York Senate spilled the beans,
“Gender-affirming healthcare is a life-saving therapy. (A.9604/S.8937) will guarantee the fitting of younger TGNC New Yorkers to entry gender-affirming healthcare.”
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