Moms for Liberty's Emily Jones praises 'huge wins' buried in medical age of consent bill going into effect October 1
In six weeks, Alabama's medical age of consent will increase to 16 thanks to a bill passed last legislative session. While many were pushing for an 18-year age standard, Emily Jones, president of Moms for Liberty Alabama, said the bill was still a win for all the other good things buried in its pages.
"This bill is amazing. Like, no one realizes what this actually does for parents beyond just the doctor's room," she said on a recent episode of "1819 News: The Podcast."
"I don't care if you amend it down to 16. You've got this other stuff buried in here. This is a huge win. We can go back and get 18. So the things that are buried in there that very few people have tracked, literally, until — it was passed, before some of her colleagues figured out. So it deals with things that are happening at school."
Jones has been at the forefront of the fight for parental rights in schools and keeping woke ideology, like DEI and social emotional learning, out of the classroom.
"This now law…prevents schools from having kids involved in any mental health counseling, period, unless the parent consents. For a 16-year-old or below. That's huge," she said. "It also has written in there anything related to suicide, which again is huge… There's a lot of kind of promoting the idea and having those conversations too young. You're putting the idea in their brain... So it prevents that and it prevents bullying [counseling], which is a huge one for me, because everything's bullying when you start dealing with LGBTQ."
She continued, "This law specifically calls out all three of those and says a 16-year-old and below has to have parental consent before a school can do this. So, being the investigative person that I am, I checked before I came down here, and our state standards still require all three of those.