08-17-2016, 04:45 PM
(08-17-2016, 04:36 PM)bfine32 Wrote: As is an abortion in many cases.
My stance regarding minors is pretty much the same in ART, Gender Identification, Abortion, Consentual Sex, Birth Control, ect.... I don't let the situation dictate the amount the amount of consent we give a child.
It's always been interesting to me the arbitrary ages that we place on things for consent. For instance, and I'm not sure if this is still the case here or the case anywhere other than Virginia, but for emergency medical services if a patient is 14 or older they can refuse treatment on their own consent and accept it even if the parent doesn't want it. However, if they are under 14 it is the decision of the parent/guardian. I don't know what requires consent at what age or anything beyond that, I just remember that from my training some 15 years ago.
There are just so many lines drawn in different places for different types of consent for different things that it is kind of a jumbled mess. And in the end it's hard to really justify most of them since the penultimate one is 18, yet an 18 year old really doesn't have much more sense than a 16 or 17 year old.
Just some random thoughts on this.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
