Background
The Committee on Judiciary will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM at
📍 State House, Room 438, Augusta, to discuss LD 410 "An Act to Require Parental Consent to Withhold Life-sustaining Measures for a Minor or to Comply with a Do-not-resuscitate Order for a Minor."
If you want to read LD 410, click here: https://legislature.maine.gov/bills/display_ps.asp?snum=132&paper=HP0264PID=1456
If you pick through the left side menu, you can find all kinds of good info!
In lieu of personally testifying in support of this bill, you may testify via Zoom, or by online testimony using the following link: https://www.mainelegislature.org/testimony/. Do this prior to the public hearing.
See below for EVERYTHING you're going to need to get this done, including testimony!
🔹 Steps to submit testimony online:
1️⃣ Click: "Public Hearing".
2️⃣ Choose a committee: "Judiciary" - using the drop-down menu.
3️⃣ Choose date: March 4, 2025, 1:00 PM - using the drop-down menu.
4️⃣ Click: LD 410
5️⃣ Enter your testimony in the box (or click the checkbox if you want to testify via Zoom).
6️⃣ Complete your contact information.
7️⃣ Click: "I'm not a robot"
8️⃣ Click: "Submit/Register".
Action Time-Window
⚠️ Please consider taking action by March 3, 2025.
Template
The below is a community member's testimony. Feel free to use it, something of your own, or something as simple as "I support LD 410, and "it ought to pass." To get other wording ideas, as online testimony is submitted for this bill, you can see it here:https://legislature.maine.gov/ctl/JUD/03-04-2025?panel=1&time=0&sortdir=0&sortby=2 after clicking on the bill number.
I support LD 410 “An Act to Require Parental Consent to Withhold Life-sustaining Measures for a Minor or to Comply with a Do-not-resuscitate Order for a Minor.”
As I understand it, this bill prohibits health care practitioners, health care providers and facilities such as nursing homes, hospitals and children's homes from withholding life-sustaining measures or instituting a do-not-resuscitate order for an unemancipated minor without the written consent of a parent or legal guardian of the minor, as well as supporting a number of other parental/legal guardians rights and responsibilities.
Once again, common sense legislation. The Maine legislature and medical providers are constantly working to circumvent parental/legal guardian authority and direction. This must stop. A minor’s parents/legal guardian has the final say. Period.
Again, I support LD 410 “An Act to Require Parental Consent to Withhold Life-sustaining Measures for a Minor or to Comply with a Do-not-resuscitate Order for a Minor”, and it “ought to pass.”
Credit for the above goes to our community member Danny (@DannyEmerson61) from the South Berwick Republican Committee (@BerwickSouth).
Disclaimer
A community member has shared this personal template for those who wish to express their views on LD 410. This template is not an official PTP position, and using it is entirely up to you. Pine Tree Patriots encourages civic participation but does not endorse or support specific actions or policies. Please remember this is an individual initiative.
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