TORONTO, Mar 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A bill in the Ontario legislature which has passed second reading and is in the committee stage threatens parental rights with regard to health records for their minor children. Bill 159, regarding privacy of health records includes provisions barring parents from the health records of their minor children unless the child or state consent to the parent’s viewing the records. The intent of the measure is to ensure that parents do not discover, for instance, that their child was taken for an abortion during school hours by school authorities. The genesis of this type of insanity began with the debate over the Consent to Treatment Act which passed in 1995. When the consent to treatment bill noted parental consent should be required for medical treatment for minor children the Ontario Association of Sexual Health Providers lobbied the socialist Rae government until the law allowed for consent by children alone, with medical and state collusion.
Pro-life lawyer Geoff Cauchi made a presentation to the Ontario government regarding bill 159 recently during which he noted that with the Bill the Ontario government is saying: “We can no longer trust you parents to make good decisions for your children, and our distrust is so deep that we must by statute no longer permit ANY parent in Ontario to decide when their child is ready to make adult decisions about the collection, use and disclosure of their personal health information on their own.” Cauchi told LifeSite that even in the case where a parent was allowed to look at the records the bill would prevent the parent from making the information public. So if a parent found out her child was taken to an abortuary for an abortion she could not make that information public, as it would be an infringement of the law.
To make your concerns on bill 159 known contact your MPP: All Ontario MPP’s emails are listed here: https://www.ontla.on.ca/locate/email99.htm