Hank Greely has an interesting blog post about California efforts to prohibit licensed health practitioners from providing "sexual orientation change efforts" and draws a connection to neuroethics issues. Here's the first paragraph:
A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just granted a temporary injunction pending appeal in the case of Pickup v. Brown,* a challenge to the constitutionality of a new California statute barring licensed health practitioners from providing the treatments defined as “sexual orientation change efforts” to minors. This is a quite interesting case, for lots of reasons – First Amendment speech rights of health care providers, the varying roles of parents, states, and minors over how children are raised, statutory regulation of medical practices, sexual orientation and the Constitution, and others. But one of the others that may get overlooked is that the case may be a bit of an imperfect test drive for arguments about “cognitive liberty.”
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