GOP lawmaker demands "parental consent" be required for doctors to treat teens' STIs
GOP lawmaker demands "parental consent" be required for doctors to treat teens' STIs - LGBTQ Nation
In what scenario would a parent going “do not treat my teens STI in defiance of the treatment they are actively seeking” not be abuse and neglect.
No, you're missing the point. Right now, teens can get tested with discretion and without notifying the parents or the tests being added to a medical file. This is so that teens don't feel too scared of getting in trouble if they get tested, so they don't and thus increase the risk of an outbreak, a far worse outcome than the fact that Chad and Tina did the hanky panky before marriage. This individual wants parents to be notified if their children are sexually active, bringing us back to square one.
Some parents might not want the doctor asking questions about where exactly the STD came from, if you know what I mean.
Can't have your sexually abused kids go to the doctor and tell on you.
Even if the STI spread through consensual sex down a chain of people close enough in age that it's not abusive, and even if the parents would have gotten the kid treated, the fact that they'd beat the kid for having had sex means the kid will never tell, not get treated, and further spread the STI.
This is the purpose of patient-doctor privilege, since it is beneficial to the community that people come to be treated (say for STIs even if they were transmitted during unlawful action, say, sex with underaged persons) It's the doc's job to treat patients regardless of parental consent.
So, basically, she wants parents to have the right to let their children suffer and possibly die. What a lovely human being.
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I was going to quote individual parts to complain about, but there are just too many. It goes deeper than medical treatment. Read the article if you haven’t already.
Yay let's spread stis!
Make America Gonorrhea'd Again?
Fuck these people. That's some straight up bullshit right there.
Is the consent needed to fix a broken arm? Inform them of the treatment, sure; consent weird.
You will cure the chlamydia I worked hard to give my daughter over my cold dead body! 😡
Oh my 10 year old kid broke a bone and it’s sticking out the side? You better not treat that without my consent.
I say let it heal with the bone sticking out. That’ll teach them to use the crosswalk in a school zone.
MAGATs hate their children.
Just like God intended
And verily I sayeth unto thee, that when you receive chlamydia upon the left cheek, turn the right cheeketh unto thee wherefore to receive the blessed yeast unto thine other cheek. And so the Lord spoketh unto thine lips, and she received the blessed herpes, and this, as it was written, was pleasing unto Him.
Welcome back to yet another episode of “The GOP Getting Weird About Other Peoples’ Genitalia”
Specifically children.
That's the problem with these people. They're always worried about other people's shit. Just completely incapable of minding their own business.
how else would they control, and maintain a large populace that may falter and leave the republican party/voting.