Parents’ Right to Know
We strongly support requiring that government medical personnel communicate with the parents or guardians of minor children within two days of providing services related to sexually transmitted diseases, emergency contraception, pregnancy, illegal drug use or the contemplation of suicide.
Instead current law requires all medical personnel to maintain confidentiality and not tell parents that they are treating these illnesses. That our legislators don’t understand that parental involvement is critical to resolving the behavior that gives rise to these “health” problems is symptomatic of the blindness of our time in history, as a Tidewater columnist noted in this column.
Read Chairman Denny Daugherty’s testimony on parental notification
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