Affirmative:
The prompt-- Resolved: Adolescents ought to have the right to make autonomous medical choices. What it means a young person in the process of developing from a child into an adult (adolescent from Dictionary.com) should make their own medical decisions.
To start, many people may be scared of this but change in this case, change is good.
1. My first point is that teenagers are more independent. A source says: “teenagers are much more independent in all areas of their lives... Adolescents are engaging in more "adult' behaviors than many of the health care professionals caring for them would have believed possible during their own adolescent years. ” This shows that in every aspect of their lives, they are more self-determining. They can decide for themselves. They take participation in more adult actions and learn from those actions. They will make their medical decisions with a smart mind. Which brings me to my next point. …show more content…
Adolescents aren’t stupid. A source says: “if [adolescents] can understand facts that are presented to them and they can make decisions on the basis of those facts, they should have a right to make choices for themselves about those facts.” This means that if an adolescent has common sense and can “understand facts that are presented to them”, they can use their knowledge to make their own medical decisions. Another source says: “Physicians educate patients so that they understand the situation adequately.” If this is applied to adolescents, we can educate our children so that they can be more prepared for making these decisions. They don’t have to go into their decision making completely ignorant, the parents will be able to educate their children, so that they don’t make wrong decisions, but it still would be up to the
The prompt-- Resolved: Adolescents ought to have the right to make autonomous medical choices. What it means a young person in the process of developing from a child into an adult (adolescent from Dictionary.com) should make their own medical decisions.
To start, many people may be scared of this but change in this case, change is good.
1. My first point is that teenagers are more independent. A source says: “teenagers are much more independent in all areas of their lives... Adolescents are engaging in more "adult' behaviors than many of the health care professionals caring for them would have believed possible during their own adolescent years. ” This shows that in every aspect of their lives, they are more self-determining. They can decide for themselves. They take participation in more adult actions and learn from those actions. They will make their medical decisions with a smart mind. Which brings me to my next point. …show more content…
Adolescents aren’t stupid. A source says: “if [adolescents] can understand facts that are presented to them and they can make decisions on the basis of those facts, they should have a right to make choices for themselves about those facts.” This means that if an adolescent has common sense and can “understand facts that are presented to them”, they can use their knowledge to make their own medical decisions. Another source says: “Physicians educate patients so that they understand the situation adequately.” If this is applied to adolescents, we can educate our children so that they can be more prepared for making these decisions. They don’t have to go into their decision making completely ignorant, the parents will be able to educate their children, so that they don’t make wrong decisions, but it still would be up to the