Writer's Block: Old enough ...
Jul. 20th, 2010 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gmonkey42[Error: unknown template qotd]Do you think parents have a right to know if their teenager is taking birth control pills?
NO
What are the potential consequences of requiring parental consent?
BAD THINGS
If parents put a teenager in the position of her not being able to talk to them about birth control, something is very wrong. Her right to control her own reproduction outweighs their right to... what? I don't even really know how this has anything to do with the parents' rights. What rights are they supposed to have here? Having ownership over her body, I guess. The underlying idea with parental notification is that girls and women are incapable of having agency; the assumption is if the girl's parents(father) don't have control over her then the evil, money-grubbing abortion doctors will.
At least this isn't something inane about ghosts like the usual Writer's Block questions.
NO
What are the potential consequences of requiring parental consent?
BAD THINGS
If parents put a teenager in the position of her not being able to talk to them about birth control, something is very wrong. Her right to control her own reproduction outweighs their right to... what? I don't even really know how this has anything to do with the parents' rights. What rights are they supposed to have here? Having ownership over her body, I guess. The underlying idea with parental notification is that girls and women are incapable of having agency; the assumption is if the girl's parents(father) don't have control over her then the evil, money-grubbing abortion doctors will.
At least this isn't something inane about ghosts like the usual Writer's Block questions.
