TO: HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
RE: HB26-1040 STERILIZATION RIGHTS OF A PERSON WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
SPONSORS: FROELICH
FROM: JEANY RUSH, CONSTITUENT COLORADO 2-2-26
VOTE: NO
“The bill requires a person with an intellectual and developmental disability (person) to receive counseling on the long-term impacts of sterilization and the less intrusive means available to prevent pregnancy before the person consents to sterilization. The counseling must take place regardless of whether the person is deemed competent to give consent.”
So you are saying whether they can give informed consent or not, someone determined by you? Must give counseling either way?
Further, if they don’t want to be sterilized, or if they perceive they don’t want, you have to honor it, unless an unattached source, court, outsiders, determines it is necessary, then boom! The deal is done anyway?
When did you all determine you had and have the right to interfere in peoples’ private lives, where it should be the families, parents making decisions with this person, for whom they most likely have cared their whole lives?
You get to decide who is the qualified counselor, court, officials, when you, and these people have already demonstrated in the state of Colorado you cannot even protect the minor children from mutilation, butchery, bodily chemical assault, devastation? We are supposed to trust or believe anything you now put into print? YOU DON’T KNOW THESE PRECIOUS INDIVIDUALS, AND HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT TO PLAY GOD WITH THEIR LIVES! LEAVE THEM ALONE, AND LET THEIR FAMILIES TAKE CARE OF THESE PERSONAL ISSUES. GET OUT OF OUR BEDROOMS, OUR UNDERWEAR, OUR LIVES ON SUCH DEEPLY PERSONAL LEVELS! Were you or the courts, or these strangers/counselors at the years of IEP’s assessments of that child’s progress? Were you there at the hours and years of efforts made by the families to equip their loved ones to grow, flourish, in the hopes they would be able to function in what used to be a safe world? These are our family members, not yours to experiment upon!
How do you get to mandate counseling, rules, decision making, in tandem with courts? Court Orders? The same courts guilty of such crimes against kids and parents as to rip them out of healthy homes, placing them in harms’ way type homes, where they are raped, farmed out, transitioned, basically taken totally advantage of by EVIL!?
Then you want to shove this CRAP down our throats without a vote of the population, by locking it into a SAFETY CLAUSE? THIS TAKES A VERY CRIMINAL MIND TO CONCOCT OR EVEN TO SUBMIT, AND THEN PUT INTO LAW? You all are not fit to serve! SHAME ON YOU!
JEANY RUSH,
CONSTITUENT COLORADO 2-2-26
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