Washington law treats parental refusal to “transition” a child or allow a minor to have an abortion as “abuse”

Liberty Counsel is preparing our briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court in International Parters for Ethical Care v. Ferguson.

A law in the state of Washington characterizes parental refusal to get their minor child an abortion or “transgender” treatments as “abuse.” 

That same law openly encourages children to run away from home in order to become a ward of the state. Once they do, the government will provide these life-destroying treatments for free.  

And the state doesn’t even have to inform the parents of the treatments, or the minor child’s whereabouts. 

This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in International Partners for Care v. Ferguson. Liberty Counsel is already preparing our briefs to overturn this outrageous and dangerous law — but we need YOUR HELP to win this case!

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In Washington state, your child is not your own, especially if you are a pro-biology, pro-life Christian.

Washington’s "Runaway Law” authorizes the state to put these minors seeking an abortion or transgender services in an “affirming” foster home (euphemistically called a “host home”), so that they can get the death-dealing, destructive services that their parents forbid. 

To pull off this outrageous theft of parental rights (and common sense), the state now characterizes a parent’s refusal to chemically sterilize their child or murder their grandchild as “abuse.” 

And because the state has classified pro-life, pro-biology parents as abusers, the state will not inform the parents of these procedures being performed on their children, or even of their children’s whereabouts! 

Section 2 of Washington’s “Runaway Law” states that homeless shelters and state employees are not required to inform parents of a minor child’s whereabouts or receive permission from the parent for medical care if there are “compelling reasons” not to do so. Those “compelling reasons” include, according to Subsection (c): 

(i) Circumstances that indicate that notifying the parent or legal guardian will subject the minor to abuse or neglect as defined in RCW 26.44.020; or  

(ii) When a minor is seeking or receiving protected health care services. (d) "Protected health care services" means gender affirming treatment as defined in RCW 74.09.675 and reproductive health care services as defined in RCW 74.09.875. 

Imagine your child getting sucked in by the LGBTQ groups then suddenly disappearing one day. 

Imagine the desperation of not knowing where your child is, or even if they are alive, only to later learn the state has been hiding your own child from you — and performing sick medical experiments on your child. 

STOP state sanctioned child abuse.

Parents’ No. 1 job is to protect their children — including protecting children from themselves and/or societies’ bad ideas. 

Every day there are stories of “detransitioners” who managed to flee the LGBTQ gender trap, but who are forever mutilated and poisoned by these Frankenstein-like experiments. 

Every day, we handle stories of women deeply emotionally scarred, even years after undergoing an abortion. 

Parents who rightly object to these services being performed on their children are doing their God-given job. 

But when a state decides that Christian ideals, a pro-life stance, and the refusal to reject biological reality is “abuse,” parents can no longer protect their children — and the state becomes the actual abuser. 

Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood — the world’s largest provider of transgender care and abortions — avidly supported the passage of this law and continues to champion the effective medical kidnapping the State of Washington legislated. 

Liberty Counsel is preparing our briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court in International Partners for Ethical Care v. Ferguson, where we are fighting to overturn this outrageous law. 

Parents and children deserve better than this. 

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Liberty Counsel