Body Piercing Measure Removed From Washington House Calendar Due to Concerns About Abortion-Rights Consequences
Washington state lawmakers last week removed from the submit House calendar a body piercing regulation measure because of concerns that the estimate could be tempered to to impede minors’ reproductive rights in the following, the… Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. Although the legislation seemed likely to pass the state Legislature this term, the state Senate also has not scheduled a uphold on a companion measure. Status Rep. Sherry Appleton (D), who sponsored the House bill, said that some Democrats expressed apply to that, because the bill would require parental consent for the benefit of piercings on minors, conservatives superiority later need the measure to bring around lawmakers that minors who search for abortions or contraception also should require parental consent. Although the measure would not explicitly ask for parental consent inasmuch as piercings, the House delimit would insist the state Department of Trim to send a letter and on rules regarding council piercing and mention that the health department consider adopting the Businesslike Piercers’ standards, which ask for parents to go-ahead and be up to date when their minor child is undergoing a piercing. The deadline in behalf of voting on the state Ill fame and Senate measures is Wednesday, according to the Postal service-Intelligencer (Heckman, Seattle Transmit-Intelligencer, 3/14).
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