Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Guidance Document Change: Board of Medicine guidance on conversion therapy
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12/8/19  4:39 pm
Commenter: David R. Smith

Conversion therapy is a personal guidance
 

Parents in Virginia are perfectly welcome to terminate any of their children before birth if they are expecting a boy but would rather have a girl, or vice versa. Given that they are given this life-and-death option, is it not hypocrisy to deny them the right to guide their children's sexual options? Furthermore, if a person is not sexually active and another person - spouse or not - invites that person to sexual activity, this also constitutes a situation of conversion, and the inviting party will therefore be liable under this law. Or should be. Think about government intrusion into citizens' private lives and ponder why the Founding Fathers wrote the Bill of Rights. These were not freedoms guaranteed from other citizens, but from government control. Do away with the Constitution? Or not.  

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