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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
That's an entirely different issue.
The right does not lose me when it calls for parental consent -- I can understand that view, I just disagree with it.
What I can't understand is parental notification -- except to the extent that it's a surrogate for consent, it seems to me to be promoting a level of government interference with the family that conservatives especially should not be advocating.
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That is a fair distinction that I don't wholly disagree with. My view would probably never get to consent, because I stop with notification, although, while I see the point about notification being a surrogate for consent and if you have the right why require the notification, I think it is a big enough issue and a serious enough medical procedure that putting in place a system where the parents have to be notified (and non-prejudicially delaying the procedure by that process) might not be bad thing. The family should be involved in the process at least to advise (but, if its a right, not prevent) on the procedure.
[gotta take a call, bye bye]
