Some States Grant Children the Right to Get and Doctors the Authority to Provide Certain Healthcare Without Parent’s Consent
A young man who had just turned 18, went to the Virginia office of Drs. Sterling and Karen Ransone, asking for the meningitis and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations. His parents, who felt that these and other vaccines were not “medically necessary”, had prohibited him from receiving vaccinations before – so these were to be the …