Washington State Senator Jamie Pedersen, the Senate majority leader and a member of the Democrats' LGBTQ Caucus, gave an interview to Fox News last year in which he said something very interesting about when women can begin making decisions about their own bodies.
I’m going to continue posting this every week.
— PNW Conservative (@PNWConservative) July 8, 2026
Senator Jamie Pedersen said if little girls as young as 8 who can menstruate, her parents have no right to be involved in her s*xual decisions.
He leads the Democrat LGBTQ Caucus pic.twitter.com/lZefcAZ68m
"Women have, if they're old enough to get pregnant, they're old enough to make their own decisions about what happens with their bodies, okay?" Pedersen said. "And parents do not have the right to change that or make a different decision, or be notified in advance."
That's so incredibly wrong.
Girls as young as eight can have a period and possibly get pregnant. Do Democrats like Pedersen think parents have no right to protect their child?
This is not just his opinion - it is Washington State law.
— Mark DeBenon (@MarkDeBenon) July 8, 2026
That's messed up, too.
— red (@redanthrax) July 8, 2026
Yes. This.
She cant vote, drive a car, go to an "M" rated movie (if they exist anymore), drink alcohol, or consent to sex, buy a gun, join the military, fly unaccomanied without parental consent, yet Pedersen thinks she is capable of making adult sexual decisions. smh
— Chris Chambers (@CDChambers62) July 9, 2026
Research shows that our brains don't fully mature until about the age of 25, by the way.
This is sick & deranged. https://t.co/xFkJcDSl2L
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 8, 2026
Yes, it is.
Just to put this is context: my daughters both developed early. They started their periods at ages 8 and 9.
— Elizabeth has no more f***s to give🇺🇸💛💚🤍💜 (@ElizabethGiddi1) July 9, 2026
According to this man, they were both old enough to make their own medical decisions and I would have no right to know anything because they were “old enough to get… https://t.co/PJpmmeUbOB
"Neither one of them could make that kind of decision. They got their periods, yes, but they were in second and third grade and neither could decide what they wanted for breakfast that morning, or what color dress to dress their DOLLS in because they were still babies playing with dolls themselves-but old enough to get pregnant so what does mom need to know anything for," she wrote. "And don’t ever trust anyone from the government when they say they are operating under the best interest of your children. Wow these people are insane."
Yes, they are.
This is part of the Left's push to make your children wards of the state. If they remove that decision from parents, some social worker or other agent will make those choices in your stead. So it's not about letting young girls choose; it's about making sure someone forces those girls to make the Leftist-approved choice while undermining parental rights.
We have to wonder how many parents are aware of what Washington's laws actually are, and how they greatly limit parental rights. If they do, and don't care, that's sad. If they don't, they can certainly vote for politicians who will restore sanity to Washington laws.
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