(Note: CCHR has placed ads in Australian newspapers and distributed thousands of fliers to alert the public about this heinous bill.)
NaturalSociety- March 5, 2012
By Anthony Gucciardi
The bill allows for children—at any age, to be sterlized, electroshocked or undergo psychosurgery without parental consent at a psychiatrist's discretion
Australia is now paving the way for children of any age to consent to sterilization — without parental consent. That’s right, if a psychiatrist determines that a child under the age of 18 years is ‘sufficiently mature’, they will be sterilized without any say from the parents. Again, there is no age minimum, as long as they are ‘mature‘ enough.
The legislation, known as the ‘Draft Mental Health Bill 2011′, also allows for 12-year-olds to consent to psychosurgery and electroshock. You can view the bill for yourself on the Australian Mental Health government website. Written by the Western Australia Mental Health Commission (MHC) and overseen by Mental Health Commissioner and clinical psychologist Mr Eddie Bartnik, objections can still be submitted to Australian parliamentary members in each state until March 9th.
Some main points of the bill read:
- CHILDREN OF ANY AGE TO CONSENT TO STERILISATION: If a psychiatrist decides that a child (under 18 years) has sufficient maturity, he or she will be able to consent to sterilisation. Parental consent will not be needed. Only after the sterilisation procedure has been performed does it have to be reported and then only to the Chief Psychiatrist. [Pages: 135 & 136 of the Draft Mental Health Bill 2011]
- 12 YEAR OLDS WILL BE ABLE TO CONSENT TO PSYCHOSURGERY:Banned in N.S.W. and the N.T., psychosurgery irreversibly damages the brain by surgery, burning or inserting electrodes. This draft bill proposes to allow a 12 year old child, if considered to be sufficiently mature by a psychiatrist, to be able to consent to psychosurgery. Once the child has consented it goes before the Mental Health Tribunal (MHT) for approval. Parental consent is also not needed for the MHT to approve the psychosurgery. [Pages: 108, 109, 110, 197,198, 199, 213]
- 12 YEAR OLDS WILL BE ABLE TO CONSENT TO ELECTROSHOCK (ECT): Electroshock is hundreds of volts of electricity to the head. Any child aged 12 and over, whom a child and adolescent psychiatrist decides is “mature” enough, will be able to consent to electroshock. Also, once consent is given, there is no requirement for parents or anyone, including the MHT, to approve the electroshock. Electroshock should be banned. Its use on the elderly, pregnant women and children is especially destructive. [Pages: 100, 101, 103, 104, 194, 105]
- Mail: GPO Box X2299 Perth Business Centre, W.A. 6847
- Find Australian Mental Health Ministers, Health Ministers and local Members of Parliament: www.parliament.wa.gov.au/
parliament/memblist.nsf/ WAllMembers
Read article here: http://naturalsociety.com/australian-bill-allows-for-sterilizations-without-parental-consent-at-any-age/#ixzz1oNTpMpQ7
Note: CCHR has taken out ads in Australian newspapers and distributed thousands of fliers to alert the public about this heinous bill.
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Okay, that is nuts. I sent my email.
This bill would strip parents of the right to protect their own children from harm – namely, psycho-surgery and electroshock, two procedures which cause irreversible damage in the name of help and which should in fact be banned from use on any human being – let alone children, who are among the most vulnerable of our society.
Parents have always had the inalienable right to protect their own children, and a law that attempts to strip them of this right flies into the teeth of the very ethics and morals which separate modern Western society from totalitarianism, fascism, and other ideologies of past and present oppressive regimes.