BizzleLuvin
02-14-2006, 11:59 PM
a recent blog article:
Kansas attorney general requires reporting of everyone who has sex under the age of 16
Posted Feb 13th 2006 1:00PM by J.D. Griffioen
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline has been called by some a pro-life zealot, using his state's legal system to issue an all-out assault on abortion rights. He is also currently embroiled in a lawsuit relating to his efforts to make it mandatory for doctors, nurses, counselors, and all other care providers to report as "abuse" any sexual interaction between teens under the age of sixteen that such care providers encounter evidence of in the course of their practice. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten is expected to rule this week on the 2003 advisory opinion issued by Kline that mandates reporting any time a care provider learns that a Kansan teen under the age of 16 has had sex. Health care officials have challenged the opinion, arguing that it violates teens' privacy and make those who need help afraid to seek it. Under Kline's view, professionals must report even when the sex is consensual, committed with partners their age, and where there is no suspicion of injury. There is no requirement that the person with whom the under-16-year old had sex be older. Kline just wants to know about every teen under 16 who has had sex.
Some argue that this is actually just a part of the attorney general's single-minded use of his vast authority in the sole interest of hassling Kansas' abortion providers. By arguing that even consensual teen sex is criminal, all teen abortion records provide evidence of a crime under Kline's logic. This leads to the conclusion that the Kansas reporting law isn't being used to fight child abuse as Kline has argued in court, but to increase reports of teen sexâ??specifically from abortion providers.
Oh goodness, what's the matter with Kansas?
Kansas attorney general requires reporting of everyone who has sex under the age of 16
Posted Feb 13th 2006 1:00PM by J.D. Griffioen
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline has been called by some a pro-life zealot, using his state's legal system to issue an all-out assault on abortion rights. He is also currently embroiled in a lawsuit relating to his efforts to make it mandatory for doctors, nurses, counselors, and all other care providers to report as "abuse" any sexual interaction between teens under the age of sixteen that such care providers encounter evidence of in the course of their practice. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten is expected to rule this week on the 2003 advisory opinion issued by Kline that mandates reporting any time a care provider learns that a Kansan teen under the age of 16 has had sex. Health care officials have challenged the opinion, arguing that it violates teens' privacy and make those who need help afraid to seek it. Under Kline's view, professionals must report even when the sex is consensual, committed with partners their age, and where there is no suspicion of injury. There is no requirement that the person with whom the under-16-year old had sex be older. Kline just wants to know about every teen under 16 who has had sex.
Some argue that this is actually just a part of the attorney general's single-minded use of his vast authority in the sole interest of hassling Kansas' abortion providers. By arguing that even consensual teen sex is criminal, all teen abortion records provide evidence of a crime under Kline's logic. This leads to the conclusion that the Kansas reporting law isn't being used to fight child abuse as Kline has argued in court, but to increase reports of teen sexâ??specifically from abortion providers.
Oh goodness, what's the matter with Kansas?