Fertility and Parental Consent for Minors to Receive Contraceptives

Informed consent and minors

The provision of informed consent by a patient should be the end point of a process of engagement in which one or more health practitioners have supported the patient to come to an informed decision to agree to the healthcare offered. Informed consent is a means to comply with the principle of respect for the person in a healthcare context. This act can be alternatively interpreted according to...

Abortion--parental consent--minors' rights to due process, equal protection and privacy.

Sexual privacy: access of a minor to contraceptives, abortion, and sterilization without parental consent.

Parental consent to publicity.

The problems presented by the use of named child patients and their medical histories in television, radio and newspapers is discussed. It is suggested that it is not acceptable to regard this as comparable to their participation in non-therapeutic research, and that no one, not even the parent has the authority to give consent to such use.

Minors and contraceptives: a constitutional issue.