Under Oregon State Law, the state’s revised statutes (ORS) defines “informed consent” for 15-year-olds independently pursuing reproductive sterilization as being “(a) Based upon a full understanding of the nature and consequences of sterilization pursuant to information requirements set forth in ORS 436.225(1); (b) Given by an individual competent to make such a decision; and (c) Wholly voluntary and free from coercion, express or implied.”
Originally Posted by WTF
Do you just like to post to feel your weenie grow?
The wholly voluntary thing isn't the issue, that's like some boiler-plate for idiots.
The (b) given by an individual competent to make such a decision is the issue and it is also the worst part of this law as it somehow
assumes there are 15 year olds running around in numbers such that
this law would make sense.
The opposite should be the law, where the assumption isn't there are competent 15 year olds to be found.
Doesnt it make a lot more sense to provide the age of adulthood as
consent and then provide some out for the rare case with a court to make an exception?
Oh yes, she could speak and she understood it was permanent, look she signed this paper!
Oregon, being one of the most liberal states, wishes to do what it can and where it can, to "free" children from the oppression of
parents; for them to find solace in the arms of the state.
Coupling Oregon and the Obama administration is a recipe for, well I won't say it but you decide.