NC Governor Bans Use Of State Money For Gay Conversion Therapy For Minors

I’m not totally against this

North Carolina won’t fund conversion therapy, Gov. Roy Cooper says

North Carolina’s state health department is barred from allowing public funds to pay for conversion therapy for minors, a controversial practice aimed at changing young LGBT people’s sexual orientations, under an order signed Friday by Gov. Roy Cooper.

Advocacy groups praised the Democratic governor’s executive order as a pioneering step to restrict the therapy in the U.S. South.

Cooper’s order forbids funds controlled by executive branch agencies from paying for such therapy for minors. That includes state and federal money for the state’s Medicaid program and NC Health Choice insurance for children in low- and middle-income families.

Eighteen states have enacted laws banning or restricting the practice that’s opposed by the American Psychological Association, though none are in the South, according to advocacy groups that track the issue.

Similar legislation was introduced in both of North Carolina’s legislative chambers this year, but it hasn’t advanced since being referred to legislative committees in April.

OK, three points on this. First, is this executive over-reach with the order? No article on this states whether state law makes it permissible for state organizations to fund the conversion therapy, so, this EO may butt up against actual law. It doesn’t restrict conversion therapy, just the use of taxpayer money.

Second, I do agree with the order, because government should not be funding things like this. It is not the business of government to get involved with said money.

Third, will Cooper agree that the government should not be funding abortions? Because we are in the exact same realm. Things that government should not be funding. Along with a ton of other stuff. This is not the government’s business, but that of private citizens, and taxpayer money shouldn’t be spent on these things, be it conversion therapy or abortion. Abortion on demand supporters can’t have it both ways.