[Torie]

Morning after pills, contraception, age of majority, underage, parental permission, parental notification, law, the Constitution, policy; they are all mixed up on this thread in one steaming mass. Moving to the most outstretched limb, do you think there are any circumstances where an underage individual should be allowed to obtain birth control devices or medicine without parental permission?

[jwalsh07]

Yes but not without parental knowledge absent clear evidence of an abusive situation.

[hocndoc]

""...do you think there are any circumstances where an underage individual should be allowed to obtain birth control devices or medicine without parental permission?""

1. When the action will not infringe on the inalienable right of another not to be killed.

and

2. When the parent would not be held responsible for the action (debt, crime, truancy,ongoing health and well being etc.) of the minor.