We did it.
We stopped the bill that would have made NC the only state in the nation to require parental consent for an HIV test and any other prevention, testing or treatment related to STDs, pregnancy, mental health or substance abuse – House Bill 693.
When the clock ticked over to midnight last night, the parental consent bill had still not come up for a vote in the General Assembly. Yesterday was the crossover deadline in the NC General Assembly. If a bill didn’t pass either the House or the Senate by yesterday, it won’t become law this year. We won.
We just proved that when thousands of committed people stand together, we can stop our lawmakers from making a dangerous, shortsighted decision. Action Team members sent a record number of emails and personal notes, made phone calls, wrote letters to the editor, blogged, tweeted, and went to the General Assembly in person to defeat this bill. As doctors, counselors, parents, students, and advocates, they spoke out about why the bill was bad for their clients, their families, and the young people of our state.
We were joined by an amazing set of partners and friends: Planned Parenthood Action Fund of Central NC, Covenant with North Carolina's Children, ARC of NC, ACLU-NC, NARAL NC, the NC Psychiatric Association, Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of NC, The North Carolina Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, and others.
The legislative session isn’t over. We still have the state budget fight ahead of us. We’ll need to protect funding for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, which is threatened with huge cuts. We’ll need to fight for the basic voting rights of the people who are most affected by HIV in our state. And we’ll need to keep building power.
It’s sad that our state’s lawmakers would even consider a bill like HB 693. It’s scary that a bill like HB 693 would pass through committee and be scheduled for a floor vote. I don’t know what we’ll face next. But I know we are up to the challenge.
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