Yes, the current debate rests on denying the autonomy of teenagers to make decisions about their healthcare. So here we are having a conversation about it, and

Yes, the current debate rests on denying the autonomy of teenagers to make decisions about their healthcare. So here we are having a conversation about it, and politicians are whipping up hatred using the topic. According to all other normal standards of care the doctor's duty is to the patient themselves. Not the patient's parents, not the patient's mayor, not the patient's high court. The doctor's duties are to the teenage patients and excluding them from the conversation about their own bodies should strike us all as suspect.