Go to jail for getting medical care

 Idaho

In Idaho H.B. bill 675 was passed  55-13 that makes giving gender-affirming health care to transgender youths not only a felony, those who do it could face life in prison. It is also a crime if parents, guardians help a child leave the state for such care. The Governor Brad Little is expected to sign it -- he may already have.

Missouri

 In Missouri there are laws pending preventing pregnant women from leaving the state to get an abortion. Since the bill preventing abortions after eight weeks, some 10,644 women have done just that according to one Planned Parenthood clinic on the Missouri-Illinois border.

 A new proposal by Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman would let private citizens to sue anyone who helps a woman get an abortion.

Texas

Parents may be under investigation if they try and treat their transgender children in Texas, according to a directive signed by Governor Greg Abbott. The Texas Children's Hospital is the largest U.S. hospital to provide this care has stopped this service. 

Texas is also the state that created bounty hunters against women seeking abortions.

Government and medical care

At the same time many of the people supporting this legislation wanted to stop vaccine mandates saying government had no right to enforce medical care on people. However stopping medical care seems to be okay. Imprisoning people for getting the care they want or need seems to be okay.

Some 300 different pieces of legislation are floating through various Republican-controlled legislators that limit a person's right to care for themselves or their loved ones. 

I wonder if carried to the extreme, could people be sent to prison for seeking treatment for cancer or having their gall bladders removed. Or maybe the idea of turning a person into the authorities and get a reward could become a good income-producer. I'm sure some wacky religious reason could be found by those legislators who want to control their constituents bodies.

If my neighbor wants to help her transgender child, it changes nothing in my life. If a friend needs an abortion, it doesn't change what I cook for dinner or what movie my husband and I will go to see. What their actions do, help themselves and their families.

That the distinction between legislation that hurts and that helps such as food stamps or child care isn't being given more shrive. I find it terribly sad when moralistic idiots not unlike the ones that enforced people into stocks in New England or burned witches still have power to destroy lives that they should be serving.