People Who Don't Hear Themselves

but you'd better wake up and hear them clearly

I’m going to show you evil. Obtuse, halfwitted evil, but evil nonetheless.

Here’s California Senator Richard Pan, a pediatrician, explaining on the floor of the state senate why it makes sense to allow 12 year-olds to consent to Covid-19 vaccines without the knowledge or consent or their parents. Listen to this, and be fully awake to it:

Look, he says, as a doctor, I already treat 12 year-olds for STDs without telling their parents about it, and hey, think about the slippery slope: “I’ll point out that many of the people who oppose the Teens Choose Vaccines Act also oppose abortion access, and the California legislature must hold the line against agency [sic!] for women and young people. For that reason, the age consent to vaccines must be 12, which is what it currently is now. We do not know the consequences for abortion access if we start making decisions for political reasons and not scientific ones.”

See, if you don’t let 12 year-olds make their own decisions about vaccines without consulting their parents, pretty soon you’ll live in the kind of barbaric world where 12 year-olds also can’t get abortions without their parents knowing about it. It’s just common sense, really. I mean, stand up for your values, right?

These are dangerous people. They are saying explicitly that this decision about vaccines is connected to their view that young children should be sexually active and sexually autonomous, making decisions about sex — and managing the consequences of sex — without their parents, without guidance or protection from watchful families. Google “OK, groomer,” and you’ll be assured that it’s a vicious and ignorant slur:

How? Here’s a state senator talking explicitly and at length about protecting 12 year-olds from parental interference in their sex lives, including their abortions and the treatment of their STDs. What else what you say to that?

Now, take a look at the analysis of SB 866 (the vaccination without parental consent bill) from the Senate Judiciary Committee, which you can do by either clicking on this link or by opening the PDF file below:

Sb 866 Wiener Sjud Analysis

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Again, the analysis makes explicit comparisons to other legislation — including this one, from pg. 15:

AB 3189 (Cooper, Ch. 1003, Stats. 2018) authorized a minor aged 12 or older to consent to diagnosis and treatment of conditions arising from intimate partner violence without parental consent.

So all 12 year-olds in California can get medical treatment for intimate partner violence — for their lovers beating the shit out of them — without parents finding out. How do you protect your children against “intimate partner violence” if no one tells you about it? If sneaking and hiding is law, what’s the role of parents?

Answer this question with a yes or a no, and you’ll know what you think of the California legislature:

Do you accept as normal and reasonable a social reality in which 12 year-olds have STDs and abortions and medical treatment for “intimate partner violence,” and all without their parents knowing about any of it?

Parents die trying to protect their children:

The California legislature doesn’t want parents to know if their children are drowning.

This is evil, full stop.