Did you know that Proposal 3 would allow children in Michigan, even very young children, to be provided sex/gender-changing procedures without their parent's knowledge or consent?
I was appalled to find that doctors, psychologists, and even schools could prescribe procedures and medications meant to alter a child’s body and mind without ever letting a parent know what is happening. This extends from hormones, tranquilizers, and supplements; so far as to sterilizations, mastectomies on little girls, and castration on little boys.
I mentioned this to a friend, and she responded with the statement that she had looked for the wording in the proposal. and couldn’t find it. The Proposal uses the word “individual” which, in the legal context, means any person, regardless of any other distinguishing characteristic.
Every person, including minors, would have the right to make and carry out all decisions about pregnancy, such as prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion, miscarriage management, and infertility. The proposal also includes ANY reproductive functions such as but not only the following: mind-altering therapies, and sterilization.
The state would be allowed to regulate abortion after fetal viability but would not be allowed to prohibit abortion if medically needed to protect a patient’s life or physical or mental health; (physical or mental health is an extremely broad-based phrase and can be interpreted to mean almost anything that a person wants it to mean. And who would make that decision as to whether the pregnancy threatened the mother’s physical or mental health?
The amendment would forbid state discrimination in the enforcement of this right; prohibit prosecution of an individual, or a person helping a pregnant individual, for exercising rights established by this amendment. This would make room for any individual, even those with NO medical background or training, to perform surgeries and therapies, with NO penalties for causing injury or harm.
The last part of the proposal states that any state laws that conflict with the proposal shall be invalidated. This includes over 40 laws put in place to protect mothers and healthy children.
I have a hard time believing that even the most liberal-minded parent would endorse the application of such an amendment to his or her own child. The idea of some stranger, who, under this proposal would not necessarily even have any medical or psychological training (or might have just enough to make them even more dangerous), would be able to go behind the parent’s back and coerce a child into making such life-changing treatments is beyond the pale.
It is a perfect example of the type of government overreach that the Convention of States movement was created to fight against.
