The Coalition to Protect Kids - NY is campaigning across New York state against a constitutional amendment that would strengthen anti-discrimination protections. The group says Proposition 1, also ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., warned that a 2020 law requiring parental consent for abortions would be eliminated if voters approve a 2024 abortion ballot initiative. But this isn’t a foregone conclusion ...

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The hypocrisy of the law is the notion that someone is not mature enough to make this decision on their own, but they are mature enough to carry a pregnancy to term. —Kylee Sunderlin, Michigan ...

Ordinarily, when children under 18 years old need health or mental health services, the clinician requests consent from their parents or legal guardians (Maslyanskaya & Alderman, 2019; McNary, ...