PARENTS CANNOT BE CUT OUT OF MEDICAL DECISIONS FOR MINORS
Rep. Horton Will Offer Bill to Stop Hospitals from Cutting Parental Access
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 31, 2023
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PARENTS CANNOT BE CUT OUT OF MEDICAL DECISIONS FOR MINORS
Rep. Horton Will Offer Bill to Stop Hospitals from Cutting Parental Access
BATON ROUGE—Louisiana Freedom Caucus member Rep. Dodie Horton, a Republican representing Bossier Parish, vows to bring a bill that ensures the rights of the parent-child relationship when making medical decisions for minor children.
Reports of Children’s Hospital of New Orleans (CHNO) working with medical software company Epic, have surfaced with parents making accusations that their access was blocked to their 13-year-old daughter’s medical records when doctors had decided their daughter was really their son. There are allegations of attempts to bully them into a course of action of puberty blockers to try to change the biological sex of their minor child and colluding with the software company to block access to their child’s medical records when they voiced concerns. CHNO’s policy is to allow 13-year-old minor children to make their own medical decisions, and parents allege this included giving her access to online gender transition websites and information.
“Louisiana has one of the most lax statutes in the country, setting no age limit on minor children making their own medical decisions. This allows hospitals and doctors to cut off parental access to their own children and their medical records at any age. There are serious allegations of predatory practices in at least one Louisiana hospital that need to be investigated,” said Rep. Dodie Horton. “If these allegations are proven to be correct, this is not acceptable. My colleagues and I will offer a bill next session to add an age of consent to the law that would bring it into line with the legal norms of 18 years old. We will, of course, carve out life-saving measures in a medical emergency.
“In addition, a cause of action against hospitals who do not comply must be created to stop unsafe experimentation on minor children,” Horton added. “We will also look at whether state funding should be going to any hospital that will not honor the supremacy of the parent-child relationship over their own gender ideology madness.”
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Background:
How opposing daughter's gender transition made parents 'enemy' to US medical establishment https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/louisiana-parents-daughter-gender-transition-enemy-medical-establishment
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