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...also leaning toward the concept that teen-agers should be able to get medical services where sex is concerned, without involving their parents. In a U.S. district court, two pregnant 16-year-old Boston girls recently won a delay in enforcement of a state law that requires them to obtain parental permission for abortions. But despite some progress, the medical rights of those under 18 remain unclear, particularly when it comes to preventing or ending pregnancy...
...many states, minors must obtain parental permission to get a prescription for the Pill or to obtain an abortion. Only 23 states have clearly recognized the rights of minors to use contraceptives; in only 16 states can juveniles get abortions on their own. Some court decisions have actually restricted the medical sex rights of minors. The Utah Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that would have eliminated the requirement for parental permission for contraceptives. The court held that giving contraceptives to unmarried minors would make them "more likely to commit the crime of fornication and to become infected...
Emancipated Youth. Some states still have laws requiring doctors to obtain parental permission before administering even emergency treatment to minors. But no physician who begins treatment necessary to save a child before the parents can be located is likely to be prosecuted. Nor will many state attorneys act against doctors who provide sex-related care to minors without parental approval. Many physicians would nonetheless like to see restrictions further eased. "We have failed to recognize the rights of children as people in many areas," says Dr. Lee Salk, pediatric psychologist at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. "Teenagers should...
Aloni said a majority of Israelis now support negotiation with the Arabs. She urged the Israeli government to obtain a mandate for peace by calling elections now, so that the solution of the Palestinian problem would not be postponed any longer...
...former President Richard Nixon's income tax returns was resolved last week. His official tax adviser, Edward L. Morgan, pleaded guilty to conspiring with unnamed others to violate the U.S. tax laws by backdating a deed of Nixon's papers to the National Archives in order to obtain an illegal deduction...