This topic places medical decisions at the forefront meaning that the topic touches on questions of terminal illness, pregnancy, sexual transmitted diseases, palliative care, and other types of decisions that minors have to make. Currently, the legal systems evaluation of minors is based on the notion that children are generally viewed as sacrosanct. This means adolescents exist in a very interesting space-as people developing into adults, adolescents are not in need of as much protection as children, but they still might lack some of the cognitive function of those who have reached their adulthood.Through providing adolescents with the ability to make their own medical decisions, the affirmative argues that we can achieve justice through the recognition of autonomy.Adolescents are generally able to make their own choices. It differs from the Affirmative, because it requests a presumption that medical decisions should be shared between adolescents and their parents. In this method, medical decisions become a tool that parents can use, with the support of doctors, in order to help allow their adolescents develop into competent, responsible decision
This topic places medical decisions at the forefront meaning that the topic touches on questions of terminal illness, pregnancy, sexual transmitted diseases, palliative care, and other types of decisions that minors have to make. Currently, the legal systems evaluation of minors is based on the notion that children are generally viewed as sacrosanct. This means adolescents exist in a very interesting space-as people developing into adults, adolescents are not in need of as much protection as children, but they still might lack some of the cognitive function of those who have reached their adulthood.Through providing adolescents with the ability to make their own medical decisions, the affirmative argues that we can achieve justice through the recognition of autonomy.Adolescents are generally able to make their own choices. It differs from the Affirmative, because it requests a presumption that medical decisions should be shared between adolescents and their parents. In this method, medical decisions become a tool that parents can use, with the support of doctors, in order to help allow their adolescents develop into competent, responsible decision