Are 12-year-olds mature enought to consent to risky vaccines?

Calif. bill draws fire for letting children consent to STD vaccines

Some people think parents are completely irrelevant. They're the same folks (often politicians or government bureaucrats) who want to give kids birth control and abortions without parental consent. If kids are injured from these things, hospital emergency rooms won't treat them without Mom or Dad's consent (and their insurance card). But when it comes to decisions about having sex and dealing with its consequences...well...parents can just buzz off and bug out!

What do you think? I a 12-year-old mature enough to consent to the Gardisil vaccine? And if she is, does this effectively lower the age of consent to 12? And if it does, does that mean kids at age 12 can legally consent to sex with an adult with no consequences for the adult?

The culture is moving in that direction and this is one more step toward the total corruption of children and the decriminalization of abuse. What could be more abusive than injecting kids, without their parents knowledge or consent, with a serious drug that can leave them permanently damaged or dead?

Alaska Joins 37 Other States by Passing Parental Notification

Alaska Voters Pass Measure for Parental Notification
Pro-lifers Outspent But Win Decisively
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor

August 25, 2010

Juneau, AK (LifeNews.com) -- Alaska voters easily passed Measure 2, a ballot proposal to allow parents in the state the right to know when their teenage daughter is considering an abortion. The state will now have a law requiring abortion practitioners to notify a parent of a minor girl 48 hours before performing an abortion on her. Read more...

Parental Consent Laws Protect Minor Girls

Among the likely fatalities that will result from electing Barack Obama president are parental notification laws. If the Freedom of Choice Act passes (and it almost assuredly will in a Democratic-controlled Congress) parental notification will be outlawed. What does that mean for minor girls? More sexual predators covering up their crimes by taking them for abortion - over and over again in some cases.

California police Sgt. Tom Yarrington has investigated over 1,000 sex abuse cases, most involving minors. Parental involvement, he says, "gives us better investigative leads, allows us to locate more victims and allows us to provide earlier intervention - not only to provide the help that the child needs to make it through this time, but it is also going to assist us in stopping further abuse from occurring to that victim and, potentially, other victims." (See complete article.)

President-elect Obama claims he wants to reduce abortion. Studies show that parental notification/consent laws do reduce abortion. Let the Obama transition team know that you want real protection for women, especially minor girls targeted by adult predators. FOCA will contribute to the exploitation of minors and Planned Parenthood has shown they are willing to abet sexual abuse by covering up. Obama's promise to pass FOCA is part of the problem, not the solution. Stop FOCA. Sign the petition and fight with prayer and action.