{"id":1508555,"date":"2022-06-09T07:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508555"},"modified":"2022-06-09T07:19:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:19:42","slug":"democrats-think-teens-can-kill-babies-and-sterilize-themselves-but-18-is-too-young-for-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-think-teens-can-kill-babies-and-sterilize-themselves-but-18-is-too-young-for-self-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Think Teens Can Kill Babies And Sterilize Themselves But 18 Is Too Young For Self Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-think-teens-can-kill-babies-and-sterilize-themselves-but-18-is-too-young-for-self-defense%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508555&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/7726399004_be8ffb6f2f_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The same party that wants to raise the legal age for rifle purchases to 21 is also pushing to let minors kill preborn babies and mutilate their own genitals.<\/p>\n<p>American adults aged 18-20 already aren\u2019t allowed to purchase handguns (and many states don\u2019t allow them to obtain a concealed carry permit), more or less blocking them from practicing the basic self-defense precaution of stowing a defensive weapon to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/multimedia\/collection\/good-guy-gun-stopped-bad-guy-gun\/\">stop<\/a> a bad guy with a gun. Now, Second Amendment deniers also want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/06\/06\/its-common-sense-raise-minimum-age-purchasing-rifles\/\">bar<\/a> these Americans from owning a rifle, a popular choice for home defense.<\/p>\n<p>But while Democrats want to punish millions of law-abiding, prospective young gun owners for the evil, disturbed actions of a few of their peers, they\u2019re also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Heminator\/status\/1533792015464407042\">demanding<\/a> that kids far younger be allowed to commit infanticide and mutilate their own bodies.<\/p>\n<h2>Letting Teens Commit Baby Murder<\/h2>\n<p>The radical abortion bill that Democrats renewed after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> sought to virtually eliminate any restrictions on abortion up to the point of birth. Minors are already allowed to obtain abortions, but the legislation would also nuke state laws <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/05\/13\/democrat-abortion-bill-codify-roe-v-wade-radical-unconstitutional\/\">mandating<\/a> parental notification for such young girls. Lest you think this is an incidental inclusion, Democrats have specifically <a href=\"https:\/\/illinoisnewsroom.org\/democrats-push-repeal-of-abortion-law-mandating-minors-notify-parents\/\">attacked<\/a> state parental notification laws.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood\u2019s website doesn\u2019t even try not to sound like a pervert offering kids candy: \u201cIf you\u2019re under 18, you may or may not have to tell a parent in order to get an abortion,\u201d it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/learn\/teens\/stds-birth-control-pregnancy\/parental-consent-and-notification-laws\">teases<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The ACLU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/other\/laws-restricting-teenagers-access-abortion\">estimates<\/a> that 350,000 girls younger than 18 get pregnant in America every year, and that 31 percent (or roughly 108,500) of them choose to terminate their babies\u2019 lives. There were 652,639 abortions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/ss\/ss6624a1.htm\">reported<\/a> to the Centers for Disease Control in 2014; in the same year, the Guttmacher Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/sites\/default\/files\/report_downloads\/us-abortion-patients-table1.pdf\">found<\/a> that 0.2 percent of abortions \u2014 or roughly 1,300 \u2014 were executed on girls 14 years old or younger.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting for these young, impressionable girls to get abortions doesn\u2019t just push them into the commission of murder, with the likely accompaniment of lifelong guilt, it also subjects them to trauma themselves. Sarah Eubanks, a former abortion facility employee, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/28\/sarah-has-been-on-both-sides-of-the-abortionists-table-heres-what-she-wants-you-to-know\/\">described<\/a> one 12-year-old girl whose grandmother brought her in for an abortion:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>I remember that look on her face that she just didn\u2019t understand what was going on. She didn\u2019t want to be there. She started moving around and the doctor said, \u2018You need to hold her down.\u2019 I did put my hands on her and said \u2018You have to settle down, you gotta be still, you\u2019re gonna hurt yourself. You have to be still.\u2019 And within an instant, she pushed her feet out of the stirrups and started running down the hall with the speculum in her vagina with blood running down her legs. The doctor said, \u2018I\u2019m not touching this.\u2019 She was that upset. She just didn\u2019t want to be there. She was screaming.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The hundreds of thousands of preborn babies\u2019 lives lost to the abortionist\u2019s scalpel every year haven\u2019t dampened Democrats\u2019 desires to let adolescent girls (or any women) make the decision to take a human life. But at the same time, the left will throw gun death numbers in your face to push their anti-gun agenda, even when firearm-related homicides are a fraction of abortion numbers, and are far outpaced by defensive gun use. Pew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2022\/02\/03\/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s\/\">reported<\/a> 19,384 murders involving a firearm in 2020, compared to up to 3 million \u201cdefensive gun uses by victims\u201d per year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/paulhsieh\/2018\/03\/20\/any-study-of-gun-violence-should-include-how-guns-save-lives\/?sh=1cc7693b5edc\">according<\/a> to a CDC study.<\/p>\n<p>Not only do Democrats want to let children kill their babies, they want to let children make damaging and irreversible changes to their own bodies. <\/p>\n<h2>Letting Children Sterilize Themselves<\/h2>\n<p>A report from Florida Medicaid <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/02\/florida-medicaid-deems-experimental-mutilative-sex-surgeries-hormones-insufficiently-safe-for-coverage\/\">found<\/a> that \u201cAvailable medical literature provides insufficient evidence that sex reassignment through medical intervention is a safe and effective treatment for gender dysphoria,\u201d and \u201cthe available evidence demonstrates that these treatments cause irreversible physical changes and side effects that can affect long-term health.\u201d As a result, Florida Medicaid found that experimental procedures like cross-sex hormones or surgeries were insufficiently safe for coverage.<\/p>\n<p>The report also listed the irreversible or potentially irreversible effects of cross-sex hormones, including facial and body hair growth, male pattern baldness, a deepening voice, and an enlarged clitoris for females taking male hormones, and breast growth, infertility, and sexual dysfunction for males taking female hormones. The irreversible effects of surgical interventions, such as elective mastectomies or genital amputations, are obviously far higher. <\/p>\n<p>But those concerning effects didn\u2019t stop the Biden administration\u2019s Justice Department from sending an ominous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/press-release\/file\/1489066\/download\">memo<\/a> to state attorneys general, threatening legal violations for states that don\u2019t offer various damaging interventions to children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA ban on gender-affirming procedures, therapy, or medication may be a form of discrimination against transgender persons,\u201d the memo stated. It also had the arrogance to claim that \u201cit is well established within the medical community that gender-affirming care for transgender youth is not only appropriate but often necessary for their physical and mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of Population Affairs further spelled out just what is meant by \u201cgender-affirming care,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/opa.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-03\/gender-affirming-care-young-people-march-2022.pdf\">including<\/a> social treatment of a child as the opposite sex, puberty blockers, artificial pumps of hormones like testosterone or estrogen, or surgeries like elective mastectomies and amputation of reproductive body parts. OPA recommends \u201csocial affirmation\u201d for \u201cany age,\u201d puberty blockers at any time during puberty, hormones beginning in early adolescence, and surgeries for adults or \u201ccase-by-case in adolescence.\u201d Some parents try to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/how-my-toddler-came-out-as-trans-to-our-family-2021-9\">claim<\/a> their children \u201ccame out as trans\u201d as toddlers.<\/p>\n<h2>But No Guns for Law-Abiding Young Adults!<\/h2>\n<p>These procedures threaten lifelong damage to children who undergo them, yet the Biden administration and other Democrats want unfettered access to them and punishments for health professionals and parents who question them. They also celebrate the idea of teenage girls taking the lives of their preborn babies, with no parental consent and with no consideration of whether a child has the mental maturity to make such a decision \u2014 never mind the fact that it\u2019s an act of murder. <\/p>\n<p>But Democrats are all too happy to further erode Americans\u2019 Second Amendment rights by arbitrarily raising the minimum purchase age for a rifle from one adult age to another. Unlike committing an abortion or pumping your child full of hormones, the legal purchase or ownership of a gun does not cause anyone harm. On the contrary, it often protects against it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Democrats support letting pubescent children abuse themselves and adolescents kill their children, while insisting that an 18-year-old who passes a federal background check can be denied the constitutional right to self-defense. Are 18-year-olds too immature for constitutional rights? Are children and teenagers old enough for a concocted right to harm themselves and others? I would argue it\u2019s neither \u2014 but it can\u2019t be both.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. You can follow her work on Twitter at @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same party that wants to raise the legal age for rifle purchases to 21 is also pushing to let minors kill preborn babies and mutilate their own genitals. 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