This is one of those stories we WISH we could tell you was made-up.
We wish we could, but unfortunately, it’s true and it’s repugnant and it looks like a complete nightmare just waiting to happen in Oregon.
Fox News reports:
The list of things 15-year-olds are not legally allowed to do in Oregon is long: Drive, smoke, donate blood, get a tattoo — even go to a tanning bed.
But, under a first-in-the-nation policy quietly enacted in January that many parents are only now finding out about, 15-year-olds are now allowed to get a sex-change operation. Many residents are stunned to learn they can do it without parental notification — and the state will even pay for it through its Medicaid program, the Oregon Health Plan.“It is trespassing on the hearts, the minds, the bodies of our children,” said Lori Porter of Parents’ Rights in Education. “They’re our children. And for a decision, a life-altering decision like that to be done unbeknownst to a parent or guardian, it’s mindboggling.”
In a statement, Oregon Health Authority spokeswoman Susan Wickstrom explained it this way: “Age of medical consent varies by state. Oregon law — which applies to both Medicaid and non-Medicaid Oregonians — states that the age of medical consent is 15.”
You may be outraged at this point. You might want to scold Oregonians for making this terrible choice, but you’d be making a mistake and here’s why:
I live in Oregon and 90% of us who live here are appalled by all this liberal/leftist garbage. Sadly Portland holds all sway over every election and vote because they hold more electoral votes than the rest of the State combined. Also the LBGT folks run Portland and the entire political system there. The mayor is openly gay and hostile to anyone who isn’t “progressive”. The Governor who signed this bill was NOT elected by the people but appointed
by law after the last Governor resigned under corruption and coercion charges. The new Governor is openly “Bi” and also hostile to anyone who isn’t “progressive”. Most of us in Oregon are totally against all this garbage but we have no say in any of it because the election system has been rigged to allow only Portland to control the State. The fact that Portland is also the #1 location on the entire West Coast for gender re$#%&!@*ignment surgeries should explain this stupid decision all too well, just follow the money.
Coming to you soon by executive order most likely !
They better foot the bill then!!!
What a joke this state has become
@[100000718256304:2048:Amanda True] time to move
Totally wrong…and eleven year olds get intra uterine birth control wa state without parent consent or knowledge…I tell ya pilgrim
.I think I’d get vigilante over my baby. Like a mama bear a fight to the death.
Our government and any society think they need do every body’s thinking gotta go
Most of us do our best but we got wickedness run amuck…
15 is not the age of Medical Consent in Oregon. False.
Thanks for explaining this. I live in Southern Oregon and wondering were that c**p came from. I figured the new Governor had something to do with it.
I live in this state. Shame on you Oregon government. Shame shame shame. Where are the parents? Hopefully they feel the way I, and my Childen and grandchildren feel., Did you ask them? Did you ask me? How do we feel about this? You are wrong …wrong … wong.
This is giving Oregon a bad image. I love it in Medford.